Trees growing near roads are to be cut down in response to the spread of ash dieback. Cumberland Council has found several areas where ash trees have been infected with the disease and need ...

Nick Atkinson is a Fellow at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He is also an employee of the Woodland Trust. Ash dieback – a fatal disease of Britain’s native ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) – is ...

Ash dieback threatens 95% of all European ash trees and has already killed or severely damaged a quarter in southern Sweden and destroyed more than 80% of young ash trees in Norway. "It's incredible ...

Ash dieback is a severe disease that has substantially threatened European ash populations, particularly Fraxinus excelsior. The disease is caused by the invasive ascomycete fungus Hymenoscyphus ...

Ash trees are fighting back against a disease that has ravaged the British countryside, new scientific evidence shows. When ash dieback arrived in 2012, it was predicted up to 85% of ash trees could ...

For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by ash dieback and facing the threat of more invasive pests. For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for ...

The Forestry Commission says a whole generation of ash trees will die with the unstoppable spread of the ash dieback disease. It is a year since it was first discovered in the wider environment and ...

New research finds that ash dieback is far less severe in the isolated conditions ash is often found in, such as forests with low ash density or in open canopies like hedges, suggesting the long term ...

A two-week road closure is anticipated for essential ash dieback works. Monmouthshire County Council has issued a Temporary ...