For the first time, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have shown that birch trees absorb microplastics through their roots during the growth phase.

Got a birch ... soak the trees regularly. Avoid pruning trees in the summer as fresh wounds draw borers. Paint the lower tree trunks with carbaryl (Sevin) in April and any wounds through the ...

while in autumn the opposite happens – birch trees receive carbon from fir trees as they start to lose their leaves. This exchange takes place through an underground “mycorrhizal network,” a ...

Working in Canada in the 1990s, Simard set out to answer a question: Why do Douglas firs need birch trees around? The problem came up when she was working in forest management. Foresters regularly ...