Plant diseases have posed a major threat to farmers since the early days of agriculture. Today, despite our improved understanding of the causes and treatment of these diseases, they continue to cause ...

In just a decade, this unusual disease has spread from Ohio across the Northeast. Scientists are testing treatments, but answers come slowly. Backlit leaves of an American beech tree show dark bands, ...

Beech leaf disease has already made its way to 15 states and into Ontario, with alarming results. By Margaret Roach I am hardly alone among gardeners who have called upon a copper-leaved European ...

Look up through the leaves of almost any native hardwood forest in Southern Berkshire County today, and you might notice an unhealthy, strange striping to some beech leaves. Then, on closer ...

Connecticut's beech trees are dying from Beech Leaf Disease, which is caused by a microscopic worm. Thomas Worthley, a forest sustainability professor at the University of Connecticut, said that both ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Some New Hampshire forests might look a little bit different this year, and not in a good way. That’s because some of New Hampshire’s beech trees have been infected with a disease that ...