As temperatures rise
Lightning strikes often cause temperate forest fires, but tropical rain forests do not cause large fires because of high humidity
does the chance that tropical rainforests will be struck by lightning and start fires. However, current monitoring shows that although the American rainforest is hit by lightning more frequently, it does not cause more forest fires. The researchers believe that this may have something to do with the large increase in the number of vines in the rainforest in recent years.