Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage.

Thomas Hardy wrote that people could identify a tree by its susurration - the sound of leaves in the wind. In Radio 4's The Susurrations of Trees, producer Julian May and writer Bob Gilbert ...

Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage.

Thomas Hardy wrote that people could identify a tree by its susurration - the sound of leaves in the wind. In Radio 4's The Susurrations of Trees, producer Julian May and writer Bob Gilbert ...

In light winds, the trees swayed at around 2 to 2.3 cycles per second, with their branches absorbing much of the wind energy, protecting the trunks and roots from wind stress.