China
Exploding melons
Agriculture experts are still at a loss to explain why chemical-free melons had been exploding one by one after farms in Jiangsu province reported the phenomenon.
Some reports blamed the overuse of a chemical employed to help fruit grow faster. However, while academics have acknowledged this could be a possibility, some believe it could be one of many possible reasons for the explosions. Some have suggested the weather and abnormally large size of the melons were to blame.