Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

Fifty years after the James river’s closure, Virginia’s worst environmental disaster — one that sickened scores of citizens and crippled a vital industry — marks a nadir in the state’s ...

It's the most common tree in Douglas County, but it's also under threat from the mountain pine beetle. As Colorado Gov. Jared ...

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Right now, because the trees are all the same age and are in close proximity, it’s sort of a ready-made buffet for the mountain pine beetle,” Colorado’s state forester says.

A major potato pest has been officially eradicated from the UK, the government has confirmed, following two years of investigative and surveillance work in Kent. The Colorado beetle was first detected ...

Pine beetles are making a comeback and killing ponderosa pines across large swaths of Colorado forests, especially along the state's Front Range, as seen here near Interstate 70 and Soda Creek Rd in ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Gov. Jared Polis, along with several leaders from multiple counties in the western Front Range, met Monday in Evergreen to discuss a new Mountain Pine Beetle invasion ...

Colorado leaders are sounding the alarm on a growing pine beetle outbreak that experts say could kill millions of trees and significantly increase wildfire risk near some of the Centennial State's ...

For 25 years, Jon Weekley has been turning Colorado trees killed by bark beetles into furniture he says is built to last generations. Supreme Court gives rare approval in case Trump files $10 billion ...