Charlotte City Council has rallied behind a goal to restore the city’s most effective natural air conditioning system: trees.

That takes a decade or longer. So when Hurricane Helene left much of North Carolina’s famed and valuable Christmas tree crop toppled, crumpled or steeped in mud, farmers like Graham Avery had ...

Roughly 190,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service lands were impacted in Tropical Storm Helene, a Forest Service district ranger ...

Pictures of spooky "ghost forests" in North Carolina have been snapped from space ... Ghost forests are coastal woodlands where trees have died due to rising sea levels, leading to saltwater ...

Common Names: Common hackberry, sugarberry, nettle tree, beaverwood ... Tennessee, and North Carolina, with scattered occurrences in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Hackberry grows naturally ...

RALEIGH — Thousands of trees damaged by Tropical Storm Helene will be repurposed under a North Carolina project developed through Interagency Recovery Coordination (IRC), a team of federal ...

This year’s official White House Christmas tree comes from western North Carolina, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene in late September. White House staff traveled to Cartner’s ...

More than 3 million fresh Christmas trees come from North Carolina each year, making it the second largest producer in the U.S. Most of those grow in a region of the state walloped by Hurricane ...