Benefits under SNAP — the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — are modest, about $6.20 per person, per day.

After recent warnings on social media, Don Kinzler asked readers about their own frost cracks, and they delivered.

As temperatures plunged across Florida this week, residents woke to a now familiar but still startling sight: iguanas lying motionless on sidewalks, cars and patios after tumbling from tree branches.

A Republican spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer made the deepest cuts in history to the largest ...

Recent winter storms across North America have sparked viral social media posts warning of a dramatic phenomenon: exploding ...

An historic water tower experienced a major leak in the " Cowboy Capital of the World " on Monday, January 26. The water ...

Viral videos of "exploding trees" during extreme cold weather prompts the question if it's really an occurrence.

Exploding trees? Extreme cold snaps in Chicago can cause trees to crack and burst from freezing stress. Tree experts explain the science behind the shocking sounds.

Think "exploding trees" sound like sci-fi? As a polar vortex hits the U.S., here's some of the science behind this loud, "gunshot-like" phenomenon.

It is indeed possible for trees to split apart in extreme conditions and to do so quite noisily, she said, typically when there’s a big swing in temperatures. In these instances, sap rapidly freezes ...

The Iowa DNR says sap that's warmed by the sun during the day can rapidly freeze, causing it to expand when the temperatures drop.

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 ...