If white pine ever goes missing, carpenters will rejoice to learn that the wood of the red pine is fairly strong, proving to be heavier and harder than the white pine. Despite the beneficial carpentry ...

An aerial look at the quartz mines in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, taken prior to Tropical Storm Helene. Google Maps Two weeks after shutting down its Spruce Pine facilities ahead of Hurricane ...

But on Pine Island, one popular Facebook group serves as a lifeline to many. Kevin and Jen Russell, the unofficial mayors of Pine Island, are also the administrators of the Facebook group Things ...

Work to release 15 pine martens into woods across Dartmoor has been completed, the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) says. The mammals, which are related to weasels and otters, were brought down from ...

Jonno Balding leans over the dining room table and holds out a rather substantial arm. At 6ft 9in tall, the Gloucester academy lock represented England Under-18 while still a year younger than ...

Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, the community of Spruce Pine, population 2,194, is known for its hiking, local artists and as America’s sole source of high-purity quartz. Helene dumped ...

In the mountains of North Carolina, the town of Spruce Pine plays an outsized role in one of the most critical sectors of the global economy: semiconductor manufacturing. The ultra-pure quartz found ...

Cathie Wood, chief of Ark Investment Management, frequently buys big-name technology stocks, especially the megacaps. That’s what she has done this week. The megacaps can provide ballast to Ark ...

"The wood is nice and solid -- you could probably make a piece of furniture out of it," Zeng noted. Understanding the unique environmental factors that kept that ancient log in mint condition ...

He and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec, one that they planned to fill with 35 metric tons of wood, cover with clay soil, and let sit for nine years.