Drought and extreme weather are taking a visible toll on trees, including an aging elm that has long been a centerpiece of one backyard landscape.

Looking upward into the branches of a very large elm tree. - Alex Cristi /Getty Images Summertime shade might be the most obvious benefit trees provide, but they also improve air quality, cool the air ...

In this Dec. 14, 2009, file photo, Frank Knight, 101, of Yarmouth, stands in front of an elm tree known as "Herbie" in Yarmouth. Knight took care of the tree for about 50 years while working as the ...

For decades, the American elm population has dwindled, and one of its greatest threats is the deadly Dutch elm disease, which has taken its toll on Brown’s campus, too. The tree removal culminated in ...

Friday was a perfect day for a comeback. In the span of a few minutes, Fargo foresters took a 7-foot bare-root American elm tree out of the back of a pickup and had it planted on the boulevard of Joel ...

PACIFIC GROVE — In a square-block park there are quite a few trees — some cypress, Torrey pines, a couple of live oaks, a magnolia, and one American elm. Some might say the tree that bears enormous, ...

Elm trees were once stalwarts of the UK countryside that towered out of hedgerows, lined fields and woodlands. Glance at the landscape paintings of John Constable for a vague idea of what has been ...

From the Times-Call photo archive via Longmont Museum: “Elm tees, elm trees, elm trees. They’re everywhere in Longmont, as this aerial photograph by Jim Matlock, vintage 1966, shows. The city’s elm ...