Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Europe and ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...

Tree rings in the Amazon reveal intensifying rainfall extremes, with wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons, reshaping ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

New wood is added year after year to the cambium, the area of a tree just beneath the bark, where cell division happens. This expansion creates growth rings, also called tree rings. Though growth ...

New study finds centuries-old bald cypress trees hold evidence of climate shocks that drastically shortened their lives.

There are many natural processes that leave behind records of past environmental conditions, including tree rings. Trees form a ring of wood every year, and the width of that ring can have a ...

The Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a wide-reaching tree plantation campaign at brick kilns across the province to combat air pollution and environmental degradation.

Cities such as Dresden, Germany, lay in ruins in 1945 (Credit: Getty Images) Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime ...