The zoo is branching out. The Bronx Zoo introduced a “functionally extinct” tree species at its grounds Monday — more than a ...

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 ...

American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at ...

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 is returning to the Bronx Zoo more than 120 years after blight was first documented there. The zoo and ...

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. But by the 1950s, this venerable tree ...

Students in Rutland are helping to conserve the American chestnut, a tree once common in Vermont and nearly wiped out by blight.

A new outbreak of a tree disease has been identified in Devon and has sparked an appeal for people to check their trees. Forestry Research said there was findings of sweet chestnut blight, a disease ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.