A Brookline dive shop fire injured a worker and firefighter, displaced residents and spread to apartments above the store.

If there is one leaf shape everyone knows, it’s the maple leaf. Botanically, it’s known as palmately lobed. Just the other day, I was ogling some Japanese maples at a nursery while lamenting how ...

What do maple syrup and rubber have in common? They are both made from tree sap (kind of like tree blood)! However, only maple syrup is an edible sweet treat. Maple syrup is a natural sweetener with ...

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Maple Tree Inn in Homewood celebrated a huge milestone in 2025 that many restaurants don’t reach: 50 years in business. The restaurant serves Cajun/Creole staples such as shrimp and grits and chicken, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Exploding trees may be taking over your social media feed, but a local gardening expert says you are unlikely to see them in your own backyard. Rick Vuyst, the former CEO ...

A sharp vertical split runs along the trunk of a damaged tree after extreme cold. As dangerously cold temperatures settle across Minnesota this week, a dramatic phrase is circulating widely online: ...

Amid a deep freeze that has settled in across much of the country in the wake of this past weekend's winter storm, social media has come ablaze with reports of "exploding trees" due to the cold. Those ...

Bitterly cold arctic air has blanketed parts of the United States over the last week, with some areas getting snow and subzero temperatures. Along with the cold weather comes a natural event called ...

If you’ve been online lately, you may have seen alarming headlines claiming that “exploding trees” are waking people up across the country. The reports describe a loud bang in the middle of the night, ...

The trending topic everyone has been talking about: exploding trees. What are exploding trees, you may ask? Let's shift gears, think less of “exploding” and more of “cracking." We can buy into the ...