Imagine standing in a quiet field after a thunderstorm, the air still charged with mystery. Beneath your feet, hidden from ...

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its ...

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

Understanding how lightning shapes forest ecosystems could shed light on how resilient they in the face of global warming, which could bring stronger storms and lightning in the future ...