It's that time of year again, when many Americans will visit their local tree lot to harvest a pine to install in their living room for a few weeks until it dies. Others will locate and extract a tree ...

Curtis VanderSchaaf is an assistant professor of forestry at Mississippi State University. Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an ...

It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the holiday season: Which are more eco-friendly, real trees or their fake counterparts? If you ask Tim O'Connor, executive director of the National ...

Fake trees have been around for longer than you might think—but how do they compare to real trees when it comes to sustainability and your health? In some countries, artificial Christmas trees are ...

Families are embracing a plastic-free Christmas, shifting from excessive toys to sustainable, earth-conscious celebrations.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Michigan’s annual $45 million Christmas tree and greenery industry may get a financial boost this year, but not because of rising prices. Plastic Christmas trees imported from ...