Witch's brooms are compact, rounded collections of short needles and small cones. They can sometimes make up the entire leafy crown of a tree. Staff at North Carolina State University are asking for ...

There haven't been many feel-good stories to come out of the decimation of the lost pine forests in the Bastrop area near Austin two summers ago. Those wildfires were a memorably hellish combination ...

COLUMBIA — The planting of more than 3 million trees across South Carolina on Earth Day serves as a practical lesson on how the state's economic prosperity depends on a healthy environment, officials ...

In the case that you ever visit central South Carolina, and we hope that you will, you will want to check out our Congaree National Park, one of the most breathtaking places in the world. It boasts an ...

WASHINGTON, Ark. – If a loblolly pine tree next to the Old Confederate Courthouse seems a little out-of-this-world, it's because it grew from seeds that were passengers on the Apollo 14 mission in ...

LAS CRUCES — A young Loblolly pine tree stands nearly three feet high in a garden, ordinary in every respect except for a remarkable origin story: The seed from which this tree sprouted has flown ...

Scientists say they've generated the longest genome sequence to date, unraveling the genetic code of the loblolly pine tree. Conifers have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, and they have ...