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hristmas tree farmers in the Northeast have lost up to 25% of their crop from the severe drought. WBZ-TV Oh the weather outside is frightful — enough to kill off Christmas trees. Yuletide firs are ...

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 ...

The analysis took into account things like the netting around real Christmas trees and the water used to keep them alive in homes, versus the plastic packaging tape used on fake-tree boxes and ...

It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the holiday season. Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts more eco-friendly? It's time to discuss one of the perennial debates of the ...