Carol Gordon is an avid collector of Black American memorabilia and has assembled a traveling history museum that she takes ...

Wang's intricate sugar figurines are a national intangible cultural heritage. [Photo provided to China Daily] Besides Kang, ...

That is how Yananymul Mununggurr describes the creation of the Yirrkala bark petitions. Yananymul is the daughter of Dhunggala Mununggurr who, alongside 11 other Yolngu people selected by Elders ...

When he was within his own length of the bank, the ice let go and plunged him belt-deep into black ... gray-white trunks of aspens. Then at last he found a birch, and near it a dead aspen with dry ...

Pine is prevalent in the landscape, birch has a long history of uses for its bark and is known to have high levels of lignin and sap content – you can imagine bending and heating it. The redwood is a ...

Chemist Pavel Krasutsky calls birch bark nature's "white gold." Betulin, a powdery substance in the ... Potlatch, a wood products and paper producer, can contribute raw material - at least 100 000 ...