Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bradford pear trees in bloom along a driveway in Sussex County, Del. Lee Cannon/Flickr, CC BY-SA When people think of spring, they ...

We should start with the thing that makes most people aware of the Bradford pear: its smell. People tend to step coyly around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At first glance, you might just think those trees covered in little white blossoms are a welcome sign of spring. Then you catch a ...

The Invasive Species Management Act outlaws the sale and spread of species, like the Bradford pear, Japanese barberry and ...

The Callery pear tree’s aesthetically pleasing, upward-facing branch structure meant limbs would rip and fly off during storms, threatening to injure people and damage cars and homes. Kelly Oten / ...

World War II had just ended, incomes were skyrocketing, the Baby Boom was underway — and Americans were reveling in first-time homeownership and the mass marketing of automobiles. The post-war ...

Bradford pear trees are the real Jersey devil. Spring has sprung and the Garden State’s very pretty, but oh-so-stinky, ...

When the Bradford pear trees are in bloom in early spring, you pretty much can't miss them; you see the lovely white blossoms on trees everywhere - and you smell that not-nearly-so-lovely fishy odor ...

Flowers and trees are starting to bloom across Ohio, but not all things in bloom are a good thing.The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state and is easy to spot along about any local ...

Years of complaints from residents and environmental groups finally led to a law banning one smelly tree and 29 other nonnative species in New Jersey.