In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense ...

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

In addition to its massive girth, the tree grows a little taller than others around it in the rainforest ... site and found approximately 100 of the trees, one of which had fallen due to natural ...