Half of grizzlies' prehibernation diet made up of pine nuts which are being attacked by fungus Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park can weigh up to 600 pounds. The whitebark pine nut weighs in ...

Could a fungus found in the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve be deadly for Torrey pine trees in La Jolla Shores’ Kellogg Park? Representatives of California State Parks have noticed that trees at ...

A thick blanket of snow covers the Tahoe Basin, its grasses and trees dormant as they wait for spring. But tucked in an office on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Foundation Executive ...

The only wild population of the precious Wollemi pine is under threat from a fungus that has already wiped out other trees, Australian experts say. And unauthorised visitors to a remote valley west of ...

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...

Do you have a mature pine tree with bunches of brown needles? It may be suffering from a fungal disease called diplodia tip blight. “Diplodia has become more common due to environmental stress and ...

About 100 seedlings of the whitebark pine tree were planted in Central Oregon early last month. The goal is to help increase their population as it has declined due to fungal disease, bark beetles and ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the ...

Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria Anyone who reads ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – A white pine tree on the Comeau property that was once used as an example of what a healthy tree should look like has become an example of a pine die-off, said town Tree Committee ...

Whitebark pines across the West are getting clobbered by an alien fungus and native beetle. The attack on the whitebarks -- by Eurasian blister rust and the mountain pine beetle -- comes at the same ...