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 ...

Rapid temperature drops can cause a real phenomenon called a "frost crack," when moisture inside a tree freezes and splits the trunk. Smooth-barked trees like sycamores are especially vulnerable, and ...

Viral social media posts are warning about "exploding trees" during a major winter storm. The phenomenon, known as "frost cracks," is real but trees rarely explode completely. This is unlikely to ...

New Delhi: Fair trade regulator CCI on Tuesday cleared Tata Steel's proposal to acquire a 50.01 per cent equity stake in Odisha-based Thriveni Pellets. The development came after Tata Steel in ...

Social media posts warning of "exploding trees" in subzero temperatures are mischaracterizing a phenomenon known as frost cracks. Frost cracks form when water inside trees freezes and expands. As a ...

At the border crossing from Iran into Iraqi Kurdistan, the stern face of Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, peers down at the trickle of Iranians leaving the territory. Thick snowflakes ...

With a one-game edge in the AFC North, the Steelers head to Detroit to play the Lions, a 15-win team from a year ago, trying to get back into the postseason picture with three games to play. Neither ...

ANGUL/BARIPADA: Carcass of a 15-year-old tusker, with pellet injuries, was traced from Baliapasi jungle in Sadar range under Angul forest division on Monday. The carcass bore two pellet wounds on its ...

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A Presbyterian minister struck by ICE projectiles while protesting outside a Chicago-area immigrant facility has joined a lawsuit accusing the federal government of “brutally” suppressing free speech.