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Apr 8, 2025

When Can You Wash Your Car? Here’s How Bad NC’s Pollen Has Been + When It Will End

The News & Observer
Robert Bardon, associate dean for extension and a professor at NC State University’s College of Natural Resources, has developed a mathematical formula to simplify the complicated courtship of the loblolly pine and its cousins that results in the ubiquitous yellow film now clinging to your porch furniture.

Apr 7, 2025

Science of Spring Pollen is Explained

Wilkes Journal-Patriot
Robert Bardon, a professor of forestry and environmental resources at NC State, has been tracking tree pollen production in Raleigh and the surrounding area for nearly a decade.

Apr 3, 2025

No Stranger To Wildfires, A Helene-Ravaged WNC Now Faces A Complicated Future Battling Them

The Asheville Citizen-Times
“People like to start fires,” said Robert Scheller, a professor at North Carolina State University’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. “We’re really good at that.”

Apr 2, 2025

Ask the Meteorologist: Is the Yellow ‘Pollening’ Really Behind Your Allergies?

WRAL
According to experts at North Carolina State University, that same yellow pine pollen that has coated almost everything recently is too large of a grain to be allergenic.

Apr 2, 2025

Why the Southeast Has Become More Of A Wildfire Hotspot

WUNC
Due South's Jeff Tiberii talks with Robert Scheller, professor of landscape ecology in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, about why wildfires are becoming more common in our state and the Southeast — and what the future might hold.

Mar 30, 2025

5 Innovative Ways Sports Organizations Are Tackling Waste

Forbes
“I see sports as a highly effective platform to promote waste reduction, reuse, and recovery efforts,” said Jonathan Casper, associate professor and sport management program coordinator at North Carolina State University.

Mar 30, 2025

Why Scientists Are Worried About Weasels

Morning AgClips
“We’re a little worried about the weasels,” said Roland Kays, a research professor at North Carolina State University.

Mar 28, 2025

Western NC Wildfires Show the Need To Do More To Meet Threats From Climate Change

Charlotte Observer
“Every fire season is unique, yet I believe it was inevitable that we would eventually have a dry spring aligned with Hurricane Helene debris,” said Robert Scheller, a forestry professor at NC State University.

Mar 28, 2025

Wildfires Keep Burning Across the South: When Will They Stop?

USA Today
"For a fire to become large enough to be a substantial threat, it requires the right combination of fuels (dried vegetation and dead leaves, needles, twigs, at the ground level), weather (dry and windy), and ignition," said NC State professor Robert Scheller.

Mar 27, 2025

Southern Appalachia’s Future — and Present — Involve Wildfires

NPR
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert Scheller, landscape ecology professor at North Carolina State University, about the increasing risk for wildfires in southeast and southern Appalachian regions.