BOSTON - Welcome to pine pollen season! The CBS Boston First Alert weather team has been fielding lots of questions over the last several days regarding the nasty yellow-green slime that is now ...

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 ...

Pine pollen may reduce fatigue and boost energy but also can trigger allergies in some people. Pine pollen may lower high cholesterol and blood sugar levels. More research is needed on pine pollen ...

Pine pollen has finally stopped falling in central North Carolina and you can sit on your patio in a pair of navy-blue shorts without looking like you fell into a glazed lemon pound cake. Except, when ...

My solar panels, like your car parked outside, have been covered with pine pollen this week. Surprisingly, it had little effect on their output. Credit: David Brooks—Courtesy Sign up for the Concord ...

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. Grains of ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Springtime in central North Carolina means warmer temperatures, severe weather and yellow pollen, but we’ve only had two of those things recently. The yellow pine pollen that we ...

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, ...