Old Wolf Oak at Ponca State Park, one of Nebraska’s oldest trees, has died, according to Nebraska Game and Parks. The bur oak ...

A popular new club at Claggett Middle School in Medina not only has engaged students in caring for the environment, but also ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer. Here are a few things to know.

The long empty and frequently flooding Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) grassy field adjacent to the Ethnic ...

The chestnut blight arrived in the late 1800s, when Americans seeking to introduce a chestnut tree with larger nuts inadvertently brought the blight along with it. Erik Carlson, a postdoctoral ...

Soon, Mobile will have an early warning system in place for when invasive pests and plant diseases end up on our shores.Sentinel gardens are set to be planted later this year. They will be located at ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

he asked. “Was it lightning?’” It wasn’t lightning. His dad told him of the once-dominant American chestnut and the blight that wiped them out. “So I thought to myself, ‘Gee ...

But the self-­proclaimed “nutheads” believe the reintroduction of a GMO, blight-resistant American chestnut at scale could also become a model for how environmentalists can redeploy trees in ...