Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Forester Andy Meier inspects an elm tree on the Mississippi River for possible signs of Dutch elm ...

About 50 years ago, Dutch elm disease wiped out most of the American elm trees, but some survived. Now, scientists in Vermont ...

The species suffered a mass decline decades ago. Researchers are studying how to restore disease-resistant elm trees, with the goal of increasing biodiversity and flood resilience in the process.

For decades, the American elm has been one of the country's most treasured species, a hearty deciduous tree lining streets, parks and backyards providing a shady canopy. The species was widely planted ...

Looking upward into the branches of a very large elm tree. - Alex Cristi /Getty Images Summertime shade might be the most obvious benefit trees provide, but they also improve air quality, cool the air ...

These are American elms, saplings of the magnificent trees that were once ubiquitous in New England, cathedrals of green that ...

Researchers and volunteers plant elm trees in a field at Boutwells Landing senior living community in Oak Park Heights on Friday, May 16, 2025. The University of Minnesota researchers hope the trees ...

A plan to reverse the destruction of elm trees in Ireland by Dutch Elm disease, which has left the country with only a tiny number of healthy mature trees, is being put in place by Teagasc. Once as ...

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 ...

RENO BOTTOMS - The elm tree that towered over Andy Meier was a survivor. At 37 inches around and about 150 years old, it had so far avoided Dutch elm disease, the fungus that wiped out many of its ...