By ALYSSA VAN DOORN The Outside Story The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip ...

This semester, students in Prof. Kinuyo Kanamaru’s class studied sections of the tree to determine how climate change may ...

But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...

trees need an adequate period of warmth during their growing seasons; otherwise, the cell walls of new growth won't develop ...

Tree ring widths, which reflect the dry or wet conditions affecting tree growth annually, provide valuable proxy climate data from before historical recordkeeping began. Rui Guo and colleagues ...

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo ICT Around the World: Tree rings show mercury pollution from Peru's illegal mining, Air New Zealand unveils Māori, Pasifika-inspired new uniforms, and access to food in remote ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

That model can be applied to the rings that formed before climate records began to reconstruct past conditions. The challenge ...

Tree rings can reveal more than just a tree's age. The basis of dendrochronology lies in a tree's unique pattern of growth rings. The rings form a kind of fingerprint—actually, with its ...