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Sudden or severe cold temperature can cause trees to experience "frost crack." NPR's Scott Simon talks with Bill McNee of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources about what happens and why.

As winter temperatures plunge, mysterious cracking sounds echo in nature—trees aren't exploding, they're reacting to extreme ...

There are many types of penguins, a family of flightless aquatic birds that live primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. Read ...

The Oregon Maple Project in Clackamas County turns big leaf maple sap into syrup while bringing students, families and the community together.

A viral social media post shared thousands of times warned of an “exploding tree risk." But experts say the dramatic imagery ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...