The tree had been an invaluable resource for those living in this part of the country, but in the early 1900s, billions of ...
More than a century after a disease first spotted at the Bronx Zoo helped wipe out billions of American chestnut trees across ...
THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A type of tree essentially extinct in the wild is making a comeback in New York City. Twenty American hybrid chestnut trees were planted in the Bronx Zoo Monday morning. The ...
American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at ...
At the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo on Oct. 5, 2026, 20 American chestnut trees resistant to a fungus that wiped out 4 billion of these trees in the early 1900's were planted in three ...
More than 120 years after the American chestnut blight was first documented at the Bronx Zoo, the iconic tree is making a ...
The Bronx Zoo is getting 25 blight-resistant chestnut saplings as part of the effort to bring the tree back from extinction.
Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...
The American Chestnut Foundation, established in 1983, has developed a hybrid American chestnut that is resistant to blight. Since 2014, biotechnologists at the College of Environmental Science and ...
On August 20, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the unprecedented decision to deregulate a transgenic American chestnut, Darling 54 (D54), ...
While President Donald Trump has criticized many environmentally friendly initiatives, he has consistently championed ...
A day before Earth Day, retired forester Rex Mann watched as scientists signed an agreement with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to allow for the eventual planting of ...