The Amazon Rainforest is home to about 10% of all species on Earth.

Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Truffles grow only in symbiosis with specific tree roots — they cannot be cultivated reliably, keeping them expensive.

Trees in a forest share resources through mycorrhizal networks — mother trees can send carbon to seedlings in shade.

Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.

A single lightning bolt can contain enough energy to power a home for several days.

Seed banks like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserve the genetic diversity of the world's crops.

The most tornadoes in a single day occurred on April 27, 2011 — 218 twisters struck the southeastern US.

The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) blooms rarely and produces the smell of rotting flesh to attract flies.