CBS 2 photographer Lou Kleinberg captured a snow-like scene in Wilmette's Gilson Park. According to CBS 2's Ed Curran, the white fuzz is caused by shedding cottonwood trees, creating a summer ...

The trees — among Chicago’s most common — are producing far more seeds than usual. ... Chicago blanketed by white cottonwood tree fluff in a banner year for the stuff ... It isn’t snow.

The "iconic and magical" cottonwood trees are the keystone species of the plant world and they're disappearing from Utah ...

Little Cottonwood Canyon was hit particularly hard by Utah’s record-setting 2022-2023 winter season. Abundant snowfall caused numerous avalanches, which led to canyon closures that lasted for ...

MOLINE -- Sawdust floated down like a snow shower Tuesday as a chainsaw carved and sliced away the huge cottonwood tree that for more than 160 years has loomed over the city at a site of a home ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

That Minnesota ‘snow’ was cottonwood seeds, Sir Charles. Bring ya antihistamines! In which the screams of millions of relieved Wolves fans blow the fluffy seeds off the trees and baffle ...

No doubt the Cottonwood trees presence attracted the eagles to the valley in which Carson City lies, resulting in its being named Eagle Valley. As one of the major overstory trees in riparian areas of ...