'Tis the season for Tannenbaum. It’s just a matter of which one. The choices can seem overwhelming at first: Will a blue spruce fill the house with the sharp scent of balsam better than a white pine?

The turkey has been finished, the Thanksgiving plates have been cleaned, and many Americans have turned their attention to Christmas, which brings a conundrum for some: The Christmas tree. For people ...

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 ...

As a child growing up in suburban southern California, there was no holiday tradition more important than the faux-winter ritual of picking out a Christmas tree at our community college’s tree lot. I ...

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 ...

Every December, as twinkling lights go up and the scent of pine (real or artificial) fills our living rooms, one question returns: which Christmas tree is better for the planet, a real or an ...

Purchasing a real Christmas tree supports American farmers and their local economies. Buying a real tree can help support communities, such as those in North Carolina recovering from natural disasters ...