Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an ...

One of those insects, a bark-eater known as the Mountain Pine Beetle, may be making a comeback. The Colorado State Forest Service's 2024 Annual Report shows an uptick in acres affected by Mountain ...

and the bark-burrowing pests declined to more normal populations. An industry built around the blue-stained wood colored by the fungus the beetles carried into pine trees even struggled to survive.

As she peeled back the bark with her ax, she accidentally squished a small black beetle. Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same. Drive through ...