In the Thuringian Forest or the Harz Mountains, dead spruce trees (Picea abies) dot the landscape like skeletons. Many have already fallen or been cut down. These dead trees serve as memorials to the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A majestic Norway spruce now growing in upstate New York has been chosen to be this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, officials announced Monday. The 75-foot (22-meter) tree is ...

Right now the tree that will soon rise from Millennium Park smothered in thousands of lights looks like a giant version of something you might use to scrub the gunk from a shower drain. But behold ...

In the forests of Finnish Lapland, beneath which some gold is known to lie underground, scientists have found something unexpected happening above the soil. Inside the needles of Norway spruce trees, ...

Rockefeller Center revealed today that this year's Christmas tree will come from East Greenbush, New York - just outside Albany. The Norway spruce will be cut on Thursday, Nov. 6, and arrive in New ...