Learn the science behind "exploding trees," why extreme cold causes frost cracks and which species are most at risk.

Winter Storm Fern has slammed into the United States, encasing 34 states in ice and forcing millions of Americans to crank up ...

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

According to Mark Chisholm, an arborist and owner of Aspen Tree Expert Company in New Jersey, "exploding trees" is a ...

As an Arctic blast settles over the northern United States, a viral warning has seized social media: it is going to get so ...

The Chicago area is under an Extreme Cold Warning on Friday as much of the U.S. braces for a major winter storm that could ...

A winter storm will bring such extremely low temperatures to the United States that it could cause trees to explode, a meteorologist has warned.

The cold blast will hit residents from Texas through the Northeast. The storm is expected to follow a mass of cold air, spreading snow and ice as temperatures plunge. Several inches of snow are ...

Mulling a problem with the positioning of wind turbines and the production decrease resulting from the turbulence within wind farms, the question has arisen whether they will ever be as valuable a ...

The race among Chinese manufacturers to build ever-larger wind turbines is expected to slow due to technical hurdles in the coming years, according to industry executives. “The average wind turbine ...

Over the last few weeks, the National Weather Service has issued multiple high-wind advisories for southcentral Pennsylvania. A wind farmer’s dream, right? One would expect the pair of massive wind ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...