A viral social media post shared thousands of times warned of an “exploding tree risk." ...

If you’ve been online lately, you may have seen alarming headlines claiming that “exploding trees” are waking people up ...

It is indeed possible for trees to split apart in extreme conditions and to do so quite noisily, she said, typically when ...

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When temperatures plunge and the air goes painfully still, people in northern forests sometimes hear a sharp crack that ...

Exploding trees? Extreme cold snaps in Chicago can cause trees to crack and burst from freezing stress. Tree experts explain ...

Forecasters warn an extreme winter storm could trigger rare “exploding trees” across the Upper Midwest as temperatures plunge ...

It turns out that trees can actually explode when temperatures drop.