Researchers are pursuing several routes to bring back the American chestnut: hybrid breeding, breeding from American survivors, gene engineering and viruses that weaken the blight fungus. Each tackles a different part of the problem, and each still faces tests before it can deliver lasting forest restoration.
Keeping one chestnut alive is different from returning a tree species to the forest. The programmes show what has progressed, what has failed and what remains to be tested.
The search began on Oct. 10, after Penticton RCMP asked Penticton Search and Rescue (PENSAR) to find an individual missing in the Carmi Recreation Forest area.
Mackenzie Macdonald is heading to the Youth Olympic Games at the end of the month to represent Australia in taekwondo. The 16-year-old is a ten-time national champion and a 15-time international medallist.
The Parksville Beach Festival Society donated $89,270 to organizations whose volunteers served as gate ambassadors at the 2026 Quality Foods Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition.
A bushwalker bitten by a suspected brown snake on the Pool of Siloam Track in Leura set off the first of three Blue Mountains emergencies today. The call came about 11.20am.
Julien Alfred donated 50 copies of a children's book about her athletic journey to Diverse Classroom Books on Friday, at her alma mater, Ciceron Primary School.
Visiting contractors on the Orkney Link project, which includes the Finstown substation, have helped Mind-On volunteers transform the Kirkwall charity's storage and shop…
Age UK North Yorkshire & Darlington has launched an emergency appeal to raise £14,000 by October 20 after warning that it could close by the end of October.
Lou, a small artisan otter sculpture donated to the school, has gone missing from its flower pot at the front of École Cobble Hill. It was last seen Friday, Sept. 25.
Three more Golden Rock residents signed deeds of transfer before a notary on Friday, 9 October 2026. The first resident to finish the process did so on 2 October.
More than one million images show threatened mammals and birds, along with a native rodent not recorded for decades, enduring or returning across the Blue Mountains…
Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary rescued a common seal pup from St Ninian’s Isle beach in late June and released it back into the water after nearly three months.
Field ecologists with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy documented a dramatic recovery of endangered Gouldian finches across the Kimberley and Top End savanna…
