This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long ...

One of the wonderful things about the change of the seasons is that it forces you to pay attention. In autumn, you notice the shifting colour in the trees, the briskness of the air and the soft crunch ...

You might have noticed very early browning of leaves this year, as well as a premature blackberry bounty. That’s partly because this heatwave-packed year has sparked sooner flowering and fruiting, and ...

Mast year are one of nature’s cleverest survival strategies, turning quiet woodlands into unexpected treasure troves. If you’ve recently noticed the ground carpeted with acorns or beech nuts then ...

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 ...

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 ...

State foresters Tuesday recorded the first deaths of beech trees from a disease that just arrived in the state four years ago and is now present in all 16 counties. Scientists say beech leaf disease ...

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 ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a nematode, is spreading through Washington County and Maryland, threatening beech tree populations. Beech trees play a vital role in forest ecosystems, contributing to ...

Jun. 12—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 ...