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We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

those trees have similar tree-ring patterns. By starting with a living tree and using wooden objects of different ages, dendrochronologists can work back through time and create a continuous plot ...

creating ‘blue rings’ that appear when wood samples are dyed. Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past.

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.

When the cells growing in a particular year do not solidify, they create “blue rings” when the wood samples are dyed. Since trees and shrubs live for hundreds of years, studying their blue ...

Trees need a certain number of warm days in their growing seasons to grow properly; otherwise, the cell walls of new growth don’t lignify properly, creating ‘blue rings’ that appear when wood samples ...

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...