Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A western pine beetle rests on a sap mound on a pine tree. - Charles Wollertz/Getty Images A thriving pine tree is a thing of ...

University of Alberta research provides new insight into how harmful fungal infections could affect the ability of lodgepole pines to defend themselves from deadly mountain pine beetle attacks. Using ...

Climate change is hampering mountain pine beetle reproduction but also appears to slightly benefit the invasive insect in other ways, new University of Alberta research shows. On an apparent upside ...

A local arborist said he’s seeing a critical issue with pine trees and beetles that was brought about by the drought. “I don’t think we’ve experienced anything like this in 40 years,” Silas Richmond, ...

A team of forest guardians fighting to keep a southern pine beetle infestation in check at The Nature Conservancy's Waterboro Barrens Preserve stand among a stand of strategically thinned pitch pines ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine beetles begin to spread aggressively, new ...

Arkansas forest landowners can now apply for a piece of the $2 million the Arkansas Department of Agriculture set aside to fight the southern pine beetle and to replant Arkansas hardwoods.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Private Florida forest landowners in several Central Florida counties can apply for a program to help prevent an outbreak of southern pine beetles, known as “the most economically ...

The mountain pine beetle has infested the lodge pole pines surrounding Butte and last summer arrived in the city of Butte. Pine trees throughout the urban area are dying. A mild winter has been ...

People fighting the pine beetle epidemic in the Black Hills are worried these days about both bugs and bucks. The federal budget is still unsettled, but short-term funding resolutions are already ...