Every time arctic air drops south, and temperatures plummet well below zero, social media lights up with a scary (and slightly cinematic) rumor called "exploding trees." Videos circulate of loud, ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

In this fruit episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will be talking about the Pouteria Sapota, more commonly known as the Mamey Sapote. I share where it comes from, what to do with it, how to eat it, ...

As we head into the weekend, a major winter storm system is going to slide some of the coldest air we’ve felt in years right over Michigan - and we’re going to be in a deep freeze for a few days. How ...

Severe cold temperatures hitting much of the country this week could branch out − literally. As people brace for the winter weather, some social media posts in recent days have warned of the chance ...

As Wisconsin and much of the upper Midwest prepare for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, some viral social media posts warn people to watch out for "exploding trees." The phenomenon, while ...

You know how some dogs get oddly invested in whatever their humans are doing for the holidays? Lucuma is totally that dog. In the Instagram Reel shared by @lucuma_theretriever, she trots down a city ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...

WOW FACTOR Lucuma’s asado de mamita ($21), or short ribs, are some of the tenderest the reviewer’s fork has ever had the pleasure of cutting into. (Photo by Kim Nies) Joining Paradita, Limón and El ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...