Part of the fun of the holiday season is putting up the outdoor decorations, but the National Audubon Society says to consider some bird-friendly decorations. They suggest using native plants in your ...

There are snowflakes on the Starbucks cups, served with their sleighfuls of Michael Bublé, and on the oily wrappers of sausage and biscuit sandwiches. There are giant, crystalline flakes in the ...

Many beloved holiday movies share this one special effect: fake snow. We look at the history of fake snow and the technology behind crafting it has evolved. It's that time of the year when a lot of us ...

There are some secrets to making Hallmark movies that make their way into the public domain from time to time. One of these is that the movies often film in the heat of the summer, or during parts of ...

It's that time of the year when a lot of us are settling in to rewatch favorite holiday movies. And what would holiday movies be without snow? Fake snow, to be precise. NPR producer Danny Hensel looks ...