"It looks like lightning struck a tree next to the house,” said District Chief Ben McKenna, “and it jumped over to the house either through a line in the ground or just through electricity ...

Lightning strikes were unleashed during a severe ... It had been 174 days since lightning struck a tree across from the White House, where Amber and three others were sheltering from the Aug.

Death of a tree from a lightning strike is not easily diagnosed. Some trees die immediately from small external damage while others with serious scars may live on for many years. If the tree does not ...

Although historically overlooked, lightning may play a surprisingly large role in shaping tropical forests, accounting for as much as 40 percent of large tree mortality. But like other drivers of ...

According to Franklin Japan, a lightning-observation meteorological company in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, the number of lightning strikes in the Kanto region, which consists of Tokyo and six ...