Lahar — volcanic mudflow — can travel faster than a person can run and extends the danger zone far beyond the eruption.

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

You are more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark.

The rafflesia flower is the world's largest bloom — up to 1 meter across and smelling of rotting flesh.

Carbon sequestration by trees depends heavily on species, age, and climate — old-growth forests store more carbon than plantations.

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

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

Storm surges are often responsible for hurricane-related flooding.

A pyrocumulus cloud can form above large wildfires — the heat creates its own thunderstorm that can produce dry lightning.