“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.

“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to hear there’s a ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup of ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do the Erie County municipalities of Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There’s a reason you find so many stretches of road ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), working collaboratively with scientists funded by The American Chestnut Foundation, have helped confirm that ...

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

Question: I would love to grow American chestnut trees on my property to harvest the nuts for the holidays. Is this possible? Answer: The quick answer to this question is no – though work on ...

The giant chestnut tree the Puyallup School District removed from a school playground last month can pose a life-threatening allergic reaction only if digested, experts say. Dr. Jeffrey Demain, a ...

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s, ...