The government is using drone and sniffer dogs to fight back against a beetle which is threatening to destroy trees across ...

The spruce bark beetle has destroyed more than 100 million cubic metres of Norway spruce since 2013 - Getty Images/Sean ...

Back 100 years ago, the Norway spruce (picea abies) evergreen tree was popular and over-planted. For example, our 1-acre property had nine of these large trees when we moved here in 1960. While ...

In just a few decades, the climate in many of the world’s forests will be so changed that many trees will have difficulty surviving. For example, in wide parts of lowland Central Europe, there is a ...

A key tree species for the forest industry in Europe is Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.]. One of its major diseases is stem and butt rot caused by Heterobasidion parviporum (Fr.) Niemelä & ...

The lights are dimming on this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The 11-ton Norway Spruce received a light dusting of snow on its final day before crews bring it down to be milled and ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — In the minutes after the chain saw ran through the base of the Norway spruce tree headed for holiday fame, the 71-foot giant hung in stasis before it finally laid horizontal. It was ...