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 ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

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.

IT TOOK 40 years to grow and just 40 minutes to come down. Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood shimmied up this silver birch with spikes on his feet to fell the tree last Wednesday. In its place ...

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.

Wall-grown peach and nectarine trees need to be protected from leaf curl, a disfiguring fungal disease. It's caused by the Taphrina deformans fungus, which is carried in rain and causes severe ...

Silver birch trees could be for the chop in Christchurch, if residents can prove they're making them ill. A Christchurch City Council committee will today consider whether the council should pay to ...

ANGRY homeowners can’t believe their street’s 80-year-old trees have been butchered. Residents living in Arcadian Gardens in Hadleigh, were aghast when tree surgeons hacked back more than three metres ...

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 ...

Almost a quarter of people questioned for the were also unaware "mighty oaks from little acorns grow" and less than two fifths knew conkers came from horse chestnuts. People also have difficulty ...