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

Frost cracks appear as vertical splits in the trunk of a tree and are the result of plant tissue expansion and contraction.

It is indeed possible for trees to split apart in extreme conditions and to do so quite noisily, she said, typically when there’s a big swing in temperatures. In these instances, sap rapidly freezes ...

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

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Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...