A new study claims that trees and the way their leaves change colors could act as natural volcano warnings as underground ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study.

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...

Its destructive power, which can kill living beings or ignite objects or buildings, appears to benefit some trees. According to this study, certain large specimens of tropical forests benefit from ...

However, we may not think much about the fate of the trees themselves, at least not as much as a team of scientists whose research on the effects of lightning on tropical forests was recently ...

Tropical forests can harbor hundreds of species of trees in one square mile. Researchers reveal key factors in the spatial distribution of adult trees. Tropical forests often harbor hundreds of ...

The two of them spend entire days journeying through the jungle in search of giant trees, dead or alive. Their work began on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, home to a deeply studied tropical forest.

For example, some tropical forests contain more than 250 tree species per hectare. However, how hundreds of species coexist on relatively small spatial scales remains a question.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you recently or in the past taken a trip to a tropical destination and left the place thinking, “Man… I wish I could grow plants like these back home.” Well ...