Opinion ‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

The trees are being injected with pesticides by a trio of scientists led by Cornell University forest entomologist Mark Whitmore. The different colors indicate which years they were treated. The ...

In 2021, he was in for a shock. “We were quite surprised to see that since 1977, the forest had changed dramatically,” Karban says. Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished — the victim of ...

It turns out the forest those colonists embraced—the forest dominated by chestnut trees—was no true accident of nature. It was a product of a relationship between people and chestnuts.

Elmore Leonard once said “I don’t have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I ...

These 5 tree species are dying. Scientists are racing to save them. Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won’t be easy. By Margaret Roach “Explore what’s ...

By the end of the Roman era, the sweet chestnut had become the dominant tree species in Ticino, displacing a previous forest-scape of alders and other trees, the pollen record shows: "This was ...