MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Pine forests are important to the environment. But recently, outside factors plague the health of pine trees in Alabama. Last year, southern pine beetles devastated ...

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Climate change, voracious beetles and disease are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that’s a key source of food for some grizzly bears and found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unidentified fungal killer swept through a South African pine plantation in the 1980s. Rodger Shagam In the 1970s and 1980s, ...

Could a fungus found in the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve be deadly for Torrey pine trees in La Jolla Shores’ Kellogg Park? Representatives of California State Parks have noticed that trees at ...

A tree gets rid of White Pine Needle Disease by shedding all the needles infected by fungi. Before the needles fall, they will turn shades of yellow and brown. Photo by Emma Malinak/VTDigger Drive ...

Japanese black pine tree with a blue sky in the background - Mawaddah Fauziah/Getty Images Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) is an incredibly striking, hardy tree with iconic long needles and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WALA) - The Alabama Forestry Commission says on its Facebook page that fungal disease is affecting pine trees in the state. Here is the post: Montgomery, Ala. – Last year, southern ...

Forest pathologists take a much different view. ‘‘A lot of trees are going to be killed,'' said John Schwandt, national whitebark pine coordinator for the Forest Service. ‘‘A lot of the seeds that ...

Do you have a mature pine tree with bunches of brown needles? It may be suffering from a fungal disease called diplodia tip blight. “Diplodia has become more common due to environmental stress and ...

Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria Anyone who reads ...