A 12-year-old girl died after being struck by a falling tree branch while playing on a rope swing, a court in England was ...

Fire officials have not confirmed yet if the massive fire in the 900 block of E. McKinley Avenue near Filbert Road was caused ...

A man working for a tree company became trapped Tuesday after a brush fire sparked below him while he was up high in a cherry ...

Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Keep up with the weather news you need. Sign up for the CNN Weather newsletter. Lightning most often strikes objects taller than their surroundings, like a tree in a field, because it takes the ...

Scientists have captured glowing treetops during thunderstorms for the first time ever, revealing hidden electrical ...

"All of a sudden, there was a big, major flash of light and a big boom, and I thought, oh my goodness, I, I had a tree fall on my house." ...

Lightning struck a massive redwood tree in a Santa Rosa neighborhood early Friday morning. A church had to be red-tagged and ...

Lightning struck a tree early Friday, April 10, splintering branches and damaging a church office and Sonoma County’s ambulance service office in the Oakmont area of Santa Rosa, according to officials ...

A prominent bur oak tree at University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum faces an uncertain future after a recent lightning strike left a nasty scar down the trunk. The ...