Chaga is also known by other names, such as black mass, clinker polypore, birch canker polypore, cinder conk and the sterile conk trunk rot (of birch). Chaga produces a woody growth, or conk ...

Private forester Craig Birch said officials first noticed the canker about eight years ago at Beaver Brook Association, a nonprofit in Hollis, that operates a 2,000-acre nature reserve that is ope ...

Canker sores are a real pain ... next time one of those itty-bitty sores is giving you a major headache. Jenna Birch is a Michigan-based freelance health and lifestyle journalist, covering ...