Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The steeple of Hayes Barton Baptist Church sticks out from Raleigh’s tree canopy in ...

Over their 40-year lifetime, the new trees will capture 28 million gallons of rainfall and store more than 5.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Wake County Government Seedlings need lots of TLC to ...

IT’S LEAVING A GIANT PROBLEM IN ITS WAKE. BEECH TREES CAN BE FOUND ALL ACROSS BALTIMORE AND THE STATE, BUT THERE’S SOMETHING OUT THERE MAKING THEM SICK. AND YOU CAN TELL BY THE LEAVES. A BIG PROBLEM ...

And while it might feel disheartening that such a serious issue started so close to home, it’s also a powerful reflection of the strength of Northeast Ohio’s conservation community. Volk notes that ...

WILDWOOD STATE PARK, N.Y. — Matt Borden, a plant pathologist, had walked less than 50 yards into the forest when he froze in place and looked skyward. He was standing in a thicket of beech trees in ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Cedar Rapids “ReLeaf” program is nearly halfway completed with tree planting, as the city continues to replace the tree canopy lost after the 2020 derecho. The city’s ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Arborists have been working on a potential ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The old tree had survived plenty. Branches tangled in power lines. Dogs ...