The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. The American Chestnut Project has evolved from basic research into a ...

Startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million to plant, restore and manage trees on degraded farmland, generating carbon credits for customers that include Microsoft Corp.  The company's goal: ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...

The American chestnut gave numerous forest animals food and shelter as well. "It's the tree version of quinoa, to create a very bad analogy. Chestnut trees are the gardener's version of the ...

Our goal is to have these trees available to the public by the fall of 2023. We have also embarked on a multi-university collaborative effort to identify the tolerance genes in Chinese chestnut (see ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Microsoft has signed a carbon removal agreement with Chestnut Carbon, a US-based afforestation firm. The deal will see ...

The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.