The smell is always the first indication. The Colorado pinyon pine – technically, Pinus edulis, aka two-needle pine, two-needle piñon or simply piñon – smells much, much sweeter and sappier than other ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Collecting pinon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic families in the southwestern U.S. for generations. But environmentalists are concerned that without the ...

Gradual warming over the southwestern United States in recent decades is causing a decline in pinyon pine reproduction, with implications for other species sharing their ecosystem, according to a new ...

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says ...