A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a billion dollars are going up for ...

In 1904, something alarming was discovered at the Bronx Zoological Park in New York City. It was a deadly fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, that was killing American chestnut trees. The result was one ...

The United States Department of Agriculture's approval of a blight-resistant American chestnut is reviving hopes that this iconic U.S. tree could eventually reclaim part of its former range in Eastern ...

The American chestnut once dominated forests in the eastern U.S., Maine to Mississippi. They were majestic trees, and the nut's an important source of food for people and wild animals. But a deadly ...

The American chestnut once dominated the Eastern woodlands. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Andrew Newhouse, an environmental biologist, about efforts to bring these trees back from the brink of extinction ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this week approved a genetically modified American chestnut tree developed over decades by scientists at the State University of New York College of ...

CHANDLER, Okla. (KFOR) — Steve Lucas walks at least 1/3 of his orchard every day, in the shade of 2,000 spreading chestnut trees, all of them on the cusp of shedding their seed pods. “I’m actually ...