It was 200 years ago (1824) that Leipzig organist and composer Ernst Anschütz penned the modern lyrics of the German song “O ...

The trunk is somewhat visible through the branches and looks like real wood ... resembling balsam or fir tips, although not as perfectly as polyethylene (PE) artificial tree foliage.

"It's quite, quite abnormal to have such wide-scale death of these balsam fir trees," he said in a recent interview. "And it really stood out." The balsam fir accounts for about 20 per cent of all ...

2:13 Research warns balsam firs threatened by climate change University of New Brunswick forestry professor Anthony Taylor was heading down a highway in the spring of 2018 when his wife pointed ...

Red needles seen on a balsam fir are shown in this handout image from New Brunswick. During a drive down a highway in the spring of 2018, a University of New Brunswick professor's wife pointed out ...