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Distant drone image of a lightning strike on a hillside in a section of old-growth forest on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. The dead tree towering over this forest stand was directly struck by lightning, and the lightning strike also killed or damaged many of its smaller neighbors

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Credit: Evan Gora

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