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 ...

Colorado’s popular recreation areas were hit especially hard by the epidemic. Out of about 4.1 million acres of pine forests ...

Strong gusts and an abundance of parched brush fed the Westhampton fire that scorched 400 acres in the pine barrens this weekend, Suffolk and state officials said Sunday. The cause of the fire ...

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six zipped her jacket and ambled into the woods with an ax. She stopped at a mixed stand of emerald and burnt-orange ...

An insect known for turning entire mountainsides the color of rust could be making a resurgence in Colorado. The pest is none other than the mountain pine beetle. After a roughly decade-long ...