Rio Baran's senior thesis research sought to explore what few scientists have attempted. “Rio is an exceptional undergraduate student,” said her adviser, geosciences professor John Higgins.

Finding "The Tree" Stammen said finding a birch tree with canoe-quality bark was the biggest challenge he encountered. There's a significant difference between the "paper birch" that easily separates ...

This honeydew is a great food source for a particular kind of fungus. We call it black mold, an apt name even if it is not ...

Searching for wisdom, columnist Kristin Neva realizes that living with ALS involves being stripped of a lot of things — like ...

The tallest tree in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ... lifting the root plate into the air. “A 100-year-old paper bark birch (Betula papyrifera) planted in 1924 has been blown flat.

giving us the perfect conditions to attune ourselves to the strategies of tree bark. Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is one of the most familiar characters on a walk in the winter woods. Its ...

but the bark won’t peel like paper birch. For example, the bark of young quaking aspen may be grayish-white but as the tree ages, the bark, especially around the base, becomes darker and ...

Li creates tree bark pieces at her workshop in Arxan ... and I provide them with all the equipment, including cleaned birch bark, paper and picture frames. I have five to six flexible workers ...

Have you ever been amazed at the beauty of the aspen and birch trees that surround the hills? And they compel you to go riding and marvel at nature. Besides aesthetic beauty, use aspen and birch trees ...