Over the past decade the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendrocthonus ponderosae) has killed millions of pine trees from New Mexico to the Yukon Territory, as a result of an unprecedented explosion in their ...

The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County a decade ago, is ravaging the local ecosystem by drying out trees and making them susceptible to fire weather.

The resulting outbreak painted expanses of green mountains reddish-orange and gray as the beetles killed countless pine trees across the region. Colorado’s popular recreation areas were hit ...