A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead says it found safety shortcomings that “exposed” employees to the explosion.
Every February, a 12-kilometer stretch of the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) in Vikhroli undergoes a magical transformation, as hundreds of Pink Trumpet trees (Tabebuia rosea) burst into vibrant, ...
Much online discussion has been hovering around the subject of frozen exploding trees this winter, following multiple videos and reports. A Facebook update from the page, Ethereal Earth, went viral ...
Here’s how it works: During a sudden cold snap, the sap and water inside a tree’s trunk freeze and expand. If this expansion ...
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Exploding trees? A closer look at frost cracking

Frost cracks appear as vertical splits in the trunk of a tree and are the result of plant tissue expansion and contraction.
TEHRAN – An explosion that hit a building in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Jan 31 was caused by a gas ...
Ice may have damaged a gas line, causing a Nashua, New Hampshire explosion. Now the fire department is issuing a warning ...
Crews are currently battling a large fire after a natural gas line exploded at a commercial building in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Robin Adair, owner of Arbour Crest Tree Services, said the city has a lot of work to get ahead of dutch elm disease. He said ...
Three firefighters were injured when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and fire Monday at a New Hampshire mental health center, but the building’s occupants all ...
Work has begun on a memorial garden at Haut du Mont the site of the explosion that killed 10 people. The Government of Jersey ...
An explosion that hit a building ​in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas was caused by a gas leak, according to a preliminary assessment, the local head of ⁠the fire department says.