The Green Macomb Tree and Plant Sale offers a variety of trees and plants for eco-conscious buyers until April 4.

Want to take advantage of all the natural wonders that West Virginia has to offer? Here's a few places that the West Virginia ...

CSX reports that service is resuming north of Spruce Pine, N.C., following Hurricane Helene; that its police agents are honored for heroic efforts during Human Trafficking Prevention Month; and that ...

Since the sale began eight years ago, more than 100,000 trees and plants have been purchased by residents, businesses and ...

Behind my house are four beautiful blue spruce pine trees. They are arranged in a snug north to south row, leaning and supporting each other. They were planted by my mom in the years immediately after ...

Behind my house are four beautiful blue spruce pine trees. They are arranged in a snug north-to-south row, leaning and ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with ...

The last outbreak lasted from 1967 to 1993, covering 136 million acres across eastern Canada and Maine. It stripped the needles from fir and spruce trees across most of northern Maine, killing 7 ...

The 120-acre reserve, based on top of Toxaway Mountain in Lake Toxaway, N.C., is a private arboretum and research center that focuses on preserving plants native to the Blue Ridge Mountains.