ST. LOUIS — A silent but devastating fungal disease is creeping beneath the surface of soybean fields across Missouri and Illinois, threatening billions in agricultural revenue and shaking the ...

To most, the brown leaves on pepper trees means dead leaves, nothing unusual. Turns out it’s more than that, which is also nothing unusual. “It’s common in pepper trees. As they fail, most people aren ...

A canker on a red oak tree in Texas. Cankers are areas of dead bark on trees. The scariest thing in yards this Halloween may not be trick-or-treaters, but "zombie trees." These trees aren't dead, but ...

Previous studies implied that decayed heartwood was important to cavity tree selection by red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis), but the results were inconclusive because they either lacked a ...