A lightning strike split a tree on Pogue Street in Raleigh during a storm Thursday night, leaving more than 300 customers without power for about nine hours. Linemen on the scene for Duke Energy told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The estimate doesn't even include trees destroyed during wildfires ignited by lightning. Most people don’t often witness the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If a tree gets struck by lightning in the woods, does anyone count it? Well, the scientists behind a new study in Global Change ...

According to their findings, published in Global Change Biology, an estimated 320 million trees die each year due to lightning strikes. Tree losses caused by direct lightning-ignited wildfires are not ...

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Seminole County firefighters say lightning hit a tree Thursday evening. That tree then fell onto a parked lawn service worker’s pickup truck. It happened on E. Orange Street ...