Scientists at a NY university say they can bring back the near extinct American chestnut tree, wiped out a century ago, ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the companies will pursue the development of scalable seedling technologies to support the first-ever restoration of a native tree species from functional ...

For decades, restoring the once dominant American chestnut meant planting thousands of trees, infecting them with pathogens ...

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 ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they're called to mind ...

MCGRAW, NY / ACCESS Newswire / April 25, 2026 / Today, SilvaBio, in collaboration with academic partners, reports findings from four independent experiments demonstrating that transgenic American ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...