Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

The estimates of trees lost to lightning strikes do not include those lost in wildfires triggered by lightning, the team said ...

Lightning kills about 320 million trees annually, accounting for 2.1 to 2.9 percent of all plant biomass loss annually.

On the wooded slopes surrounding the village of Kalavryta in southwestern Greece, hundreds of dying fir trees stand out among ...

A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle.

Lightning's quiet impact could have lasting effects on the world’s forests - and the carbon cycle they support.