As the ornaments come down and pine needles make their annual bid for independence, Chicagoans face the ultimate post-holiday question: What should I do with this tree? Whether you’re a pro-recycler ...

The average price of a Christmas tree in New York City is about $119. That’s based on nearly 300 responses from readers who are helping us track the price of pines across the five boroughs this month.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

The greater Columbus area features over a dozen farms for cutting your own or buying precut trees. With the turkey carved and gobbled, Christmas is just weeks away and many central Ohioans may soon be ...

It was a relatively light month for grocery openings and closings in October. Dollar Tree had the most store openings with 22, while Family Dollar had the most closings with 12. Save A Lot had eight ...

Scientists have mapped microbe populations in human guts, deep-sea ecosystems and even clouds. Yet the microbial communities inside tree trunks have remained largely unseen until now. For a recent ...

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

Why some U.S. cities are so much greener than others. Ever since I first visited D.C., I was in awe of how full of trees it was. Rock Creek Park, one of the oldest city parks in the United States, is ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...