Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered ...

On these 20-to-50-hectare plots, every single tree with a diameter not much larger than a pencil has been identified, ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate ...

Tropical forests in the Americas are struggling to keep pace with climate change, sparking concerns about their ...

Historically, most reforestation in the tropics utilized a few exotic tree ... altered patterns of temperature, precipitation, and cloud cover, will certainly strongly affect tropical forests.

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...