Elm trees were once stalwarts of the UK countryside that towered out of hedgerows, lined fields and woodlands. Glance at the landscape paintings of John Constable for a vague idea of what has been ...

The North Carolina Forest Service has been receiving reports of scorched-looking elm trees throughout central North Carolina, from Davidson to Johnston counties. But Jim Slye, the service’s Forest ...

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 ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back. In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with ...

Scientists use deadly disease to restore iconic American elm trees - The initiative to protect elms forms part of a broader national push to curb forest pests and diseases that jeopardize longstanding ...

U.S. Forest Service scientists in Vermont injected 6,000 young elms with Dutch elm disease spores to breed a new generation of disease-resistant American elms.

As Edmonton fights a growing cluster of Dutch elm disease cases, municipalities across Alberta are stepping up beetle surveillance to protect the province's estimated 900,000 municipal elm trees.

The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back. In Vermont, Leila Wilson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, ...