When temperatures plunge and the air goes painfully still, people in northern forests sometimes hear a sharp crack that sounds like a gunshot. That eerie noise has fueled a viral claim that trees ...

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Trees don't explode in cold temperatures, but they can develop a frost crack, or vertical fissure in the tree trunk.