Twenty hybrid American chestnut trees were planted at the Bronx Zoo on Monday as part of an effort to bring the once-prevalent tree back to New York City. The Wildlife Conservation Society joined the ...

LONDON (AP) — A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a billion dollars are going up for auction after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty hybrid American chestnut trees were planted at the Bronx Zoo on Monday as part of an effort to bring the once-prevalent ...

From Florida’s panhandle to coastal Maine and across the Appalachians to the Mississippi River, the proud and mighty American chestnut tree once blanketed the eastern U.S. As many as four billion ...

American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at the zoo. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll find out why 20 ...

The zoo is branching out. The Bronx Zoo introduced a "functionally extinct" tree species at its grounds Monday — more than a century after the institution's own scientist discovered a deadly fungus ...

More than 120 years after the American chestnut blight was first documented at the Bronx Zoo, the iconic tree is making a historic return to the same grounds where its devastating decline was first ...

Curt Laffin of the American Chestnut Foundation pollinates an American chestnut tree near my home in 2020, part of cross-breeding efforts that predate GMO research. Since this photo was taken the tree ...

On August 20, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the unprecedented decision to deregulate a transgenic American chestnut, Darling 54 (D54), genetically modified to contain oxalic oxidase (OxO), ...