Hannah’s colleague Molly Jacobson was the first to find the chestnut mining bee, or “Andrena rehni” in New York since 1904 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus in Coralville, you’ll find a rare mature American ...

In 2014, I wrote an article on the demise of the American chestnut tree due to the invasive chestnut blight. I’ve been reading the up-to-the-moment research, and I thought I would give a hopeful ...

Hundreds of conservation organizations, universities, government agencies, businesses and individuals are working to restore the “functionally extinct” American chestnut tree, according to a news ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started with a chestnut encased inside a small ziplock filled with moist peat-moss.

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...

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 ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...