The chestnut tree is the main Kyiv tree ... RBC-Ukraine offers a look at rare archival photos of Khreshchatyk, where chestnuts were still absent. Chestnuts: the green symbol of Kyiv The chestnut ...

I have seen pictures from the 1800s of chestnut trees that tower over all others in the forest; they were truly the giant redwoods of the eastern half of the country. These trees were prized for ...

American chestnut trees once numbered into the billions, stretching from Maine to Mississippi. “The American chestnut was a very plentiful tree, especially in Pennsylvania,” said Sara ...

For lumber companies, the American chestnut was a nearly perfect tree—tall, straight, rot-resistant and easy to split. It also was prolific, sending up new shoots that grew quickly. In the early ...

Although many Americans still associate the winter holidays with chestnuts, the tree that once produced them — the American chestnut — no longer does so, except in a few rare cases.

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 ...