Forestry Research is reporting cases of sweet chestnut blight in Devon A new outbreak of a tree disease has been identified in Devon and has sparked an appeal for people to check their trees. Forestry ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup of ...

This page includes summaries of scientific studies on Darling 54 chestnuts. Two separate chestnut blight inoculations (controlled, replicated intentional infections with the blight fungus) confirm ...

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know that an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, a species native to Virginia and other states, were wiped out by a fungus? The American Chestnut ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an ...

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s, ...

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 ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...