The Banyan tree can spread horizontally indefinitely through aerial roots that become new trunks.

Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times every second.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s turned 400,000 square km of US farmland into desert through drought and poor farming practices.

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

Lightning strikes Earth millions of times each day.

Rainbows form when light refracts and reflects in water droplets.

Ants that are infected by a certain fungus climb plants, clamp onto a leaf, and die — allowing the fungus to sporulate.

The longest lightning bolt ever recorded stretched 768 km across the southern US in 2020.

A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.