silver or gray blotches all over it? If so, you were probably looking at a tree that had died from hypoxylon canker disease. Hypoxylon canker (Hypoxylon atropunctatum) is a fungal disease that has ...

Earlier research from her lab had shown that silver birch trees were good at capturing particles larger than 1 µm. Now they wanted to know whether it would also nab ultrafine particles and ...

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.

Sap also can be visible on the bark, and the tree's crown may be thin.Private forester Craig Birch said officials first noticed the canker about eight years ago at Beaver Brook Association ...