A powerful lightning strike hit Katoomba, New South Wales, on Monday, March 23, triggering a chain reaction that ignited a ...

COVENTRY, Conn. (WFSB) - A lightning strike ignited a tree after an evening of storms on Tuesday. The tree was located near the intersections of Swamp Road and Brewster Street. The Coventry Fire ...

Lightning that struck a tree in Davenport also damaged windows in a nearby home in the McClellan Heights area on Sunday ...

Lightning was caught on camera hitting a tree in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on Sept. 9. Security camera footage captured the strike on the property of Mike Smith, who was not home at the time but was ...

YIKES! Lightning strikes a tree in Yadkin County. Thanks to Max Swaim for sharing this video.

(KRON) — A bolt of lightning struck a beloved redwood tree next to a Santa Rosa preschool Tuesday while thunderstorms rolled through the region. Lightning ripped through the large tree’s trunk before ...

A first-of-its-kind study estimates that lightning strikes kill 320 million trees every year. For perspective, these dead trees account for up to 2.9 percent of annual loss in plant biomass and emit ...

Every year, lightning kills around 320 million trees across the globe, not with raging wildfires but through direct strikes that often go unseen. The trees don’t always fall dramatically; many die ...

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Watch as powerful lighting strike in Katoomba, New South Wales, sparks a fire, explodes a tree, ruptures a gas and water main ...