Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

A recent report in the scientific journal Nature Genetics 49: 904–12 (May 2017), doi:10.1038/ng.3862, disclosed the results of genomic DNA sequencing and analysis of Betula pendula, the silver birch ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

The omnipresent nature of plastic waste threatens the environment in all sorts of ways, particularly as it is broken down into tiny fragments known as microplastics. This includes contaminating soil ...

In urban settings, particulates come primarily from car exhaust, brake pad wear, and road dust and can contain metals, such as iron and lead. The Environmental Protection Agency classifies ...

(1) The crown of a tree can be considered as a population of repeated units (buds, leaves, shoots, flowers) with demographic properties. (2) The study is an attempt to analyse the structural dynamics ...

Variability in the crown development of two Silver Birch trees during the spring growth period of 2020. The panel presents a top-view canopy mapping using LiPhe data from April to June 2020. The color ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

Tania Morgan loves nature and the great outdoors. But she is looking forward to the day when she comes home from work and finds the large silver birch tree on the grass verge outside her house gone.

North Devon Homes has planted a tree and buried a time capsule to celebrate 25 years of supporting communities, capturing the ...