The Woodland Trust has asked the public to pinpoint the location of one of the country's oldest trees. The charity launched the Ancient Tree Hunt in 2007 and this autumn it wants the public to help ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

(CBS).– Nearly four billion American chestnut trees once grew in the eastern United States, dominating forests from Maine to Florida. Wood logged from the massive trees helped build everything from ...

St John's Primary School are hiding behind "non-existent health and safety regulations" after lobbying the Woking Borough Council to remove a tree preservation order so they can chop down a historic ...

To save the American chestnut tree, researchers want to release genetically engineered trees into the wild to reproduce. It would be a first — a possible breakthrough and an irreversible experiment.

That pointed them to the European, or sweet, chestnut tree, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor. "In Italian traditional medicine, a compress of the boiled leaves is applied to the skin to treat ...

Allan “Buzz” Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades ...

Nearly four billion American chestnut trees once grew in the eastern United States, dominating forests from Maine to Florida. Wood logged from the massive trees helped build everything from homes to ...