What to know before the extreme cold settles in.

Spring arrived officially at 10:46 a.m. Philadelphia time Friday, the instant when the sun beamed its most direct light on ...

Running a state flooded by deer, Governor Healey has thrown her support behind the controversial measure to allow hunting on ...

However, plants native to the tropics can suffer even when nighttime lows dip into the 40s. The bulk of plants in ...

Kashmir produces most of India's almonds and walnuts but meets only a fraction of exploding demand. Indians already turn to ...

Members of Alaska Youth For Environmental Action shared personal narratives as part of their Civics and Conservation Summit.

The blaring alarm startled Malik Hall out of his sleep in the early morning of February 28. Months earlier, when he first ...

From Jan. 25 to Feb. 10, power outages affected about 230,000 homes in Nashville, five people died and tens of thousands of trees were damaged.

You might have heard media reports describing how shower doors have shattered spontaneously inside homes. While there are rare cases of the door exploding while homeowners are inside the shower, most ...

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 ...

Trees don't explode in cold temperatures, but they can develop a frost crack, or vertical fissure in the tree trunk.

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 ...