Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree's age. "Most of us ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tree rings reveal a climate record deep into the past. Pixabay Neil ...

Scientists are studying tree rings to learn about changes in climate over hundreds of years. Researchers showed BBC News how the width of the rings can give clues to rainfall, temperature fluctuations ...

Turns out tree rings can do more than just tell you how old a tree is. Researchers have found they can also help track Pacific storms over centuries. That could help out water managers and climate ...

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

The UA has plenty of special features to offer, but one of its more overlooked aspects is its abundant plant life—specifically, that of the Laboratory of Tree-ring Research. UA’s tree-ring lab right ...

The release of e-mails hacked from University of East Anglia climate scientists in 2009 (unimaginatively dubbed “Climategate” in media scandalese) generated about as much public discussion as any ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Officially, the record of hurricanes in the Atlantic goes back to ...

The sun has been in the same routine for at least 290 million years, new research suggests. Ancient tree rings from the Permian period record a roughly 11-year cycle of wet and dry periods, climate ...

Here was a ring to rule them all. It came not from the fires of Mordor, but from a tree in New Zealand. And its secrets were written not in Elvish script, but in the annual pattern of its growth. Only ...

The death of a star is one of the most spectacular events in the universe. After millions and often billions of years, the star’s fuel supply runs out. Without its nuclear fire to sustain it, the star ...