Local arborist Luke Brunner says that low temperatures are far less dangerous to trees than heavy snow and ice.

An early-morning fire and apparent explosion ripped through a plant in Greene County on Monday, sending a thick column of smoke into the sky and pulling in a heavy emergency response. The blast and ...

Dolbear’s Law reveals how the snowy tree cricket can act as a natural thermometer. By counting chirps, you can estimate ...

Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...

Exploding trees made quite a few headlines last month when temperatures dropped across much of the country. While the claim of trees exploding certainly grabs attention, it is a little exaggerated.

This has been a winter full of surprises. The Philadelphia area has seen the biggest snowstorm in 10 years and one of the longest below-freezing streaks in our history. Nearly every day since ...

If you’ve spent time outdoors during recent cold snaps—or scrolled social media—you may have heard talk of “exploding trees.” While the phrase sounds dramatic, the phenomenon behind it is very real ...

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Frost crack as seen in a tree. (Photo by Thomas deHaas, OSU Extension educator) SALEM, Ohio — Winter walks in the forest bring sounds of boots crunching through heavy snow and wind whistling through ...

You may have been surprised like me on Jan. 21 if you saw the following headline: "Exploding trees possible across Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota." You might not remember ever seeing an exploding ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Exploding trees may be taking over your social media feed, but a local gardening expert says you are unlikely to see them in your own backyard. Rick Vuyst, the former CEO ...

When temperatures plunge and the air goes painfully still, people in northern forests sometimes hear a sharp crack that sounds like a gunshot. That eerie noise has fueled a viral claim that trees ...