Annual Christmas day is nearly coming. Christmas Day is a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.

The trees of Christmas future may be safer from an insect pest that makes Ebenezer Scrooge's famous nightmare pale in comparison — killing millions of pine trees, according to an scheduled for the December 22 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.

This year credit-crunched Brits plan to spend 27 per cent less on Christmas decorations than last year. The festive tree will be the first thing to suffer, as a third of people (32 per cent) say they plan to reduce the size of their Christmas fir. One in twelve (8 per cent) who traditionally put up decorations say that they won’t bother to put any up at all this year.

Recycling your Christmas is made easy with Earth 911 (www.earth911.org). It calls not to trash that Christmas tree. Instead, Eart 911 says treecycle it.

The National Christmas Tree Association advises consumers that prices on farm-grown Christmas Trees, purchased at either a farm or retail lot, will not go up because of recent fuel cost increases, in spite of recent news reports to the contrary.