As beech leaf disease spreads across Maine, foresters and researchers race to understand its impact, retain healthy trees and ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced there are worsening conditions of beech leaf disease in the state.

Michigan is the ninth U.S. state to report beech leaf disease. There's no effective treatment for the disease, which can kill a tree in 6-10 years.

Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen ...

Beech leaf disease harms the leaf tissue of beech trees. According to DNR, there are 37 million American beech trees in the state and the species is important to the forest and its wildlife.

The nematode that causes beech leaf disease enters leaf buds and spends the winter in them, causing damage to leaf tissue on American, European and Asian beech species. Trees weakened by leaf ...

The beech tree — present in all 88 counties — plays an important role in Ohio's forests, serving as a food source and even a home for a vast array of wildlife. According to the Ohio Department ...

The idea of trees "talking" to one another through underground fungal networks—the so-called "wood wide web"—has captured the imagination of the public. This concept, where trees supposedly share ...

A tiny worm is attacking beech trees across Massachusetts, and arborists say they're worried the long-term impact could devastate a species that's critical to the state's forests. The worm causes ...

Beech syrup samples produced for the NNYADP-funded research evaluating the economic feasibility of producing syrup from American beech trees; on the left, syrup made using reverse osmosis before ...