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

More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about ...

The southern pine beetle destroys trees by digging tunnels through its bark, limiting a tree's ability to move nutrients through its trunk. By killing trees, southern pine beetles also destroy ...

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.

COLORADO SPRINGS — Many southern Coloradans would tell ... they would stay healthy," said Johnson. Mountain Pine Beetles do not eat dead bark, so the wood on someone's house would be safe.