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 ...

The most destructive of these is a particular type of stem canker, which can kill an entire tree. Experts from the Research Institute add that there's not much that humans can do for the birch. Often ...

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 ...