The strangler fig germinates in the canopy and sends roots down — eventually enveloping and killing the host tree.

Mangroves provide critical coastal protection, reducing storm surge and wave impact during hurricanes.

Hurricanes gain strength from warm ocean water.

There is a river in Colombia called Caño Cristales that turns bright red, yellow, green, and blue — it's called the liquid rainbow.

A derecho is a line of severe thunderstorms producing damaging straight-line winds — often mistaken for tornadoes.

Altruism challenges purely self-interested models of human nature.

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

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

A single lightning bolt contains about one billion joules of energy but lasts only a fraction of a second.