The experiments involved adding microplastic beads tagged with fluorescent dyes to the soil of potted silver birch trees. The root systems were analyzed using fluorescence and confocal laser ...

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.

believe the constant pruning could have a fatal impact on the trees. Nearby neighbour, retired Dilly Bostock said: “You shouldn’t cut back silver birch in the spring when they’re flowering ...

The group put nine tree species through their paces, with three clear winners in the top tier, the study, published May 16 in Environmental Science & Technology, finds. Birch, the best-performing tree ...

Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood shimmied up this silver birch with spikes on his feet to fell the tree last Wednesday. In its place one day there could stand a mighty Californian redwood ...

A SILVER birch tree has been planted in Bridgend to mark 25 years of a charity. Carwyn Jones AM joined the managing director of The Shaw Trust and staff from the Bridgend office to plant the tree ...

As you might have guessed, the Downy Birch Tree is the level 2 tree in this pair, meaning that you can go ahead and save your 10 Farm Cash and just purchase the Silver Birch Tree, as you'll likely ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Forests of silver birch stretch across Europe, and they are a wonder to behold: stands of slender, white-barked trees sheltering vast swathes of earth. But these woodlands also have ...