Imagine a comfortable, fashionable electric scooter made from sustainable materials that doesn’t sacrifice quality. Thanks to a collaboration between designer Mikiya Kobayashi, automotive manufacturer ...

In 2014, I wrote an article on the demise of the American chestnut tree due to the invasive chestnut blight. I’ve been reading the ...

In the late 1800s, 25% of hardwood trees in North America’s eastern forest were American chestnuts, 40 meters high and two meters across, they provided abundant resources for both people and wildlife ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LOVELL — It’s official, for now — North America’s tallest known American ...

That was back when American chestnut trees dominated forests from New England to the South and as far west as the Ohio Valley. Each fall the trees’ sweet nuts blanketed forest floors, providing a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oftentimes, when a large and historic tree tumbles in a storm, it’s chopped up and put in a dump. But in Sellwood, the community wanted to do something different. On Monday, ...

Thanks to a bounceback in American chestnut farming—and a co-sign from Jonathan Anderson—is the humble chestnut chic again?

The American chestnut tree is the subject of a story of near tragedy and a possible future. This story will be the subject of a “Chestnut Walk” on Saturday, May 19 at Codorus State Park. The public is ...

Sara Fitzsimmons, in the red shirt on the left, speaks to a group of college students about chestnuts. More than a century after a blight wiped out the majority of American chestnut trees across the U ...