(New Scientist) You know something serious has happened when you see a scene like this. It might be drought or disease or mysterious meteoric eventsMovie Camera – but ice can also bend the mighty tree to its will, as here in Durham, North Carolina.
Freezing rain and ice struck the 2800-hectare wood on 6 and 7 March. It left pine trees over 3 metres high bent with their tips nearly touching the ground, and others uprooted or broken.
