Efforts to thin forests and breed low-pollen cedar advance, even as labor gaps and neglected land complicate the work.

The government pledged to slash the pollen count in half over the next 30 years to make life more tolerable for the millions of people in Japan who suffer from hay fever each spring. It aims to do ...

Researchers have developed low-pollen tree saplings that could ease or even erase the suffering of tens of millions of people ...

Every year, pollen counts in Japan are getting worse. In fact, pollen levels in Tokyo were literally off the charts just a few weeks ago. As a result, for four months out of the year, an estimated 15 ...

Japan has pledged to reduce cedar pollen — the root cause of a seasonal allergy that afflicts 40% of the country — by revitalizing the country's shrinking forestry industry. A package of policies ...

The Environment Ministry said Saturday that Japanese cedar pollen has begun spreading in the Tokyo metropolitan area. According to officials, the pollen has begun scattering into the air five days ...

It was not your imagination. Cedar fever has kicked in and during the weekend it was very bad. AccuWeather put tree pollen, which includes the mountain ashe juniper that causes the misnamed cedar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cedar fever is happening now in Central Texas as the male ashe juniper trees become full with pollen and try to spread it to ...