Should you add exploding trees to the many unpleasant surprises that come with extreme cold or is it just another myth?

The Texas A&M Forest Service debunked a false viral claim that trees explode in the cold. Here's what can really happen.

A massive winter storm brought sleet freezing rain and heavy snow across a roughly 2,000-mile swath, causing about 1 million power outages and widespread travel chaos.

Think "exploding trees" sound like sci-fi? As a polar vortex hits the U.S., here's some of the science behind this loud, ...

Social media treats the tree-popping phenomenon as a sign of the apocalypse, but Indigenous peoples have long used the sound ...

As more than half of the United States braces for a powerful winter storm, some meteorologists are warning on social media ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Christmas is over, but the remnants – stacks of cardboard boxes, bags of sparkly wrapping paper and maybe one or two broken ornaments – remain. Though it's easy to toss these items into the garbage, ...

Three Palestinians were arrested on accusations of lighting a Christmas tree on fire and damaging part of a Nativity scene at a Catholic church in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the ...

Tree farmers and the marketing group that supports them want more Americans to buy live-cut trees. A new Home Depot ad gave them holiday hope. By Kevin Draper Milk had “Got Milk?” Beef had “Beef: It’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional ...

The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus, and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy’s ...