Dust from the Sahara Desert regularly crosses the Atlantic Ocean and fertilizes the Amazon Rainforest.

Trees in a drought will 'talk' to each other through chemical signals in the soil, triggering defensive responses in nearby trees.

Tsunamis can travel across entire ocean basins.

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

Your lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 15,000.

Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times per second — producing 44 billion bolts per year.

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

St. Elmo's Fire is a plasma glow around ship masts and aircraft during thunderstorms — mistaken for supernatural fire.

The 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused severe flooding in New Orleans.