The d rive to save elm trees is part of a broader fight in the U.S. to try to beat back forest pests and diseases, which ...

Scientists use disease to restore iconic American elm trees - The initiative to protect elms forms part of a broader national ...

The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the US is now being used to bring the iconic trees back. In ...

As many as 100 million elm trees died from Dutch elm disease in the span of 50 years. Now, decades of careful breeding may ...

Walking down into the floodplain at the Nature Conservancy’s preserve in Benson, Vermont is like walking into a sea of American elm saplings. The trees criss-cross about 30 acres on the valley floor ...

As Rhode Island settles into the colors of a New England fall, students and community members may notice one exception to the emblazoned foliage on campus: the American elm tree on the Main Green. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After more than a decade of nurturing, it had come time to infect this 28-acre grove of American elms with a disease that would ...

Survey teams using hand-held computers are conducting a three-week inspection of more than 8,500 American elm trees along District streets, looking for wilting leaves, dead branches and other symptoms ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dutch elm disease has been reported back in Denver after more than a decade of its absence. The Denver forestry office discovered the disease last month in ...

An American elm tree that predates the Civil War was cut down this week. The tree has stood on the grounds of the First Presbyterian Church 1793 since the first church building was constructed in 1851 ...

A mature surviving American elm tree stands above 5,200 saplings planted in Benson. Walking down into the floodplain at the Nature Conservancy’s preserve in Benson is like walking into a sea of ...