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  3. October 2022
  4. Enlightening Lightning

Lightning strikes shape tropical forests

New UW–Madison research helps establish lightning as an environmental driver that may dictate what trees will make up tropical forests in the future.

Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/lightning-strikes-shape-tropical-forests/
Posted in October 2022

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