So far this year - setting aside the January freezes - our weather has been dominated by breezy, dry cold fronts, each one stirring up cedar, aka Ashe juniper, pollen as it sweeps through. We are in ...

So far this year — setting aside the January freezes — our weather has been dominated by breezy, dry cold fronts, each one stirring up cedar, aka Ashe juniper, pollen as it sweeps through. We are in ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Social media posts warning about “exploding trees” during frigid temperatures are misleading, according to a local arborist. The phenomenon referenced in viral posts is ...

Hay fever sufferers beware. Forecasters are predicting that cedar and cypress pollen is arriving earlier and in larger quantities than in recent years throughout most parts of the nation. The Japan ...

Pollen-releasing male flowers of a Japanese cedar are seen in this file photo taken in the city of Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Feb. 16, 2019. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Hay fever season is at its height ...

The government pledged to slash the pollen count in half over the next 30 years to make life more tolerable for the millions of people in Japan who suffer from hay fever each spring. It aims to do ...

The government on Tuesday unveiled a draft proposal for lessening the effects of Japan’s hay fever season, which include reducing cedar forests by 20% over 10 years with the goal of lowering the ...

Japan on Tuesday decided to speed up replacing cedar forests with trees that produce less pollen as a measure to tackle hay fever, an allergy believed to affect some 40 percent of the country's ...

After World War II, Japan began reforesting the country with fast-growing sugi (cedar) and hinoki (cypress) trees. However, this effort led to a hay fever crisis, which was first noticed in 1964. By ...

Japan’s cedar pollen season is expected to begin in early February, with total airborne pollen levels set to exceed historical averages nationwide, according to a forecast released Wednesday by ...

DALLAS -- Texas winters herald the bane of many allergy sufferers: cedar fever. From December to February, acres of mountain cedar -- also known as Ashe juniper -- in the Hill Country and parts of ...