Dr. Robert Bardon, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at N.C. State University, gives some scientific facts behind all that yellow dust. Questions and answers have been edited. Q. Why ...

Imagine trying to tell identical twins apart just by looking at their fingerprints. That's how challenging it can be for scientists to distinguish the tiny powdery pollen grains produced by fir, ...

Tree pollen is already climbing into the Triangle during the mid-February warm-up.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — We are one week into March. While we’ve had storms and wild temperature swings so far this month, we still haven’t had the annual blanket of yellow pine pollen. In central North ...

Atlanta shattered a record on Saturday, March 29, when it recorded nearly 15,000 pollens grains per cubic meter of air. The previous record of 9,368 was blown away with the 14,801 reading by Atlanta ...

If pine pollen is a plague that keeps you locked indoors for three weeks in spring, you can open your eyes — and your windows — again in the next three to seven days. It’s almost over. Dr. Robert ...

COLUMBIA — Herrick Brown remembers a time he was doing field research on an island off the coast of Georgetown County. The USC professor looked down at his feet, the ground thick with years of fallen ...