Can trees explode in frigid weather? As Minnesota is home to thousands of firs and oaks, the concept of an exploding tree is troubling. What does it mean? A viral social media post shared thousands of ...

Minnesota is also unusual for having four major plant boundaries within its borders: mostly cold-climate conifers in the Northwoods; temperate deciduous trees such as oaks and maples in the state’s ...

It'll be so cold in Minnesota that trees might explode… Or so certain click-hungry online meteorologists would have you believe. Driving the clicks: Friday's forecast daytime high (-7) would be the ...

If you're looking to go viral on social media, all you really have to do is come up with a real-but-extraordinarily-rare phenomenon and then circle a region on a map and say there's a chance of that ...

The Minnesota State Forest Nursery works to provide seedlings to people across the state. These seedlings can help grow trees on public and private land. Joel Lemberg, a Minnesota Department of ...

Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports ...

AMOR, Minn. — Hundreds of gallons of maple tree sap sat chilling in 55-gallon barrels at Lindentree Farm on Saturday, March 22, near Amor. With temperatures dipping to 11 degrees early that morning, ...

LAKE ELMO, Minn. — It's one of the latest harvests of the year, and the fresh scent pine and fir trees emit can, in a way, be bittersweet. "The fields that we're harvesting this year have been part of ...

As the world warms, trees in such forests will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in John H. Tibbetts, Knowable Magazine On a brisk September morning, ...