Tomatoes are known for their brilliant red flesh, but they come in a whole kaleidoscope of colors. Cherokee Purple heirlooms with grayish-brown skin may not look particularly appetizing, but they ...

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so ...

But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

Six Chestnut Ridge wrestlers earned No. 1 seeds in Saturday’s District 5 Class 2A tournament at Bedford High School. The Lions have won 13 of the past 14 district team titles, including 12 straight ...

Huntsville researchers working with the American Chestnut Foundation are driving a leap forward in efforts to restore the ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests.

After more than a century of devastation from deadly blight, the iconic American chestnut tree could be brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to novel genomic tools and carefully bred ...

For thousands of years, an estimated four billion native American chestnut trees provided bounty for Indigenous Peoples, wildlife, and entire forest ecosystems in New Jersey. Each fall, nuts and ...

On Thursday afternoon, Dec. 4, local Scouting America Troop 109 joined the MenloPark Public Works Tree Team and a few members of the Police Department to plant two Red Ruby Horsechestnut trees near ...

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 ...