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 ...

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...

The team’s work, part of a decades-long effort supported by the Canadian Chestnut Council, aims to identify traits or environmental conditions that help some trees survive. They are also testing for ...

More than a century ago, the mighty giants of the forest began to fall. The valuable, vigorous American chestnut tree, prized for its strong, light wood and its nutritious nuts, was infected with a ...

A rare bee species native to New York state was discovered in Syracuse at a SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...