The disease has caused widespread damage to ash tree populations in continental Europe and is particularly destructive to young plants.

BBC: Ash dieback: Government holds talk on potential threat

D-shaped holes in the bark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.

WSJ: Getting to the Roots of Your Trees' Stress

An Essex tree nursery owner who burned 100 ash trees as a precaution against a fungal disease says government action is "too little, too late".

BBC: Essex

Little appeared to be left of some palm tree-lined neighborhoods, where whole plots were reduced to smoldering masses of twisted debris and ash.

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Seminars are being held to offer landowners and tree planters advice and guidance about how to deal with the fungal spores which attack young saplings and mature ash trees.

BBC: Ash dieback: More positive tests in Carmarthenshire