WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...

In the eastern United States, there were billions of American chestnut trees at the turn of the 20th century, their abundant fruit moved by railcar to cities for sale on street corners. W ...

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

To save the American chestnut tree, researchers want to release genetically engineered trees into the wild to reproduce. It would be a first — a possible breakthrough and an irreversible experiment.

STATE COLLEGE --About a mile as the crow flies from Beaver Stadium, where the Penn State faithful gather each fall in search of gridiron glory, stands a chestnut tree. On this late summer afternoon ...

As the earth warms and the precipitation patterns change, trees are expected to migrate north seeking weather they are adapted to. Scientists project trees will need to move faster than their natural ...

The American chestnut tree was once called "the redwood of the East" because of how huge it could grow. It was an amazing food source: each fall, the tree would drop an unbelievable bounty of tasty ...

Enter the wishing tree. For more than 10 years, a majestic horse chestnut tree in a Northeast Portland parking strip has ...

About 2,500 feet above Palo Alto in the Santa Cruz Mountains, there’s a 20-acre farm that nurtures a rare crop for this area: chestnuts. Skyline Chestnuts is the only such farm in the Bay Area, and ...