Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural ...

In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

Tree rings, says Waddle, are a gold standard for measuring a tree’s history, one with which most people are familiar. The center, or pith, signifies when the tree established, or secured its roots and ...

New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...

Another term for examining a tree core is “reading” it, because there is more to the story than just age – tree rings are clues to the life and trials of a tree and the forest in which it grows. My ...

Tree-ring increment cores collected from bigcone Douglas fir trees growing on Mount Pinos in Southern California. Each growth ring is a couplet of light colored spring wood and dark colored summer ...

She pulled in detailed tree ring growth records of 12 individual evergreen trees growing throughout Arizona — six Pinus edulis, three Pinus ponderosa and three Pseudotsuga menziesii — that had ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

IDEAS The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. The blue rings in trees formed during the latewood stage, at the end of the growth season, when cold ...