This is the first known instance where a virus disease has caused a fatal epidemic among trees. The outbreak appears to be even more serious than that of the so-called Dutch elm disease which has ...

The century-old elm tree at the iconic Tavern on the Green restaurant will be removed after the Parks Department determined ...

Throughout the state, Minnesotans are still noticing native American elms falling prey to Dutch Elm Disease, one of the most widely known tree diseases, affecting elms worldwide. Fortunately ...

Hundreds of trees in parks across Brighton are to be felled to "protect the future of the city's trees from disease", the council has said. A combination of ash dieback and elm disease have ...

American elms are elegant and beautiful native North American trees. Sadly, their numbers have been decimated by Dutch elm disease, which is caused by a pathogenic fungus called Ophiostoma novo-ulmi.

It was a disease that decimated towering trees across the country. In the 1970s, an outbreak of Dutch elm disease led to the loss of 90pc of elm trees, with 25 million falling victim to the ...

The National Trust is set to plant 100 trees that are resistant to a disease that ravaged an historic feature of the British landscape through ...