Trees tell us stories. Scientists count their rings to figure out how old they are and when those years add up, it can be a sign of nature's endurance in the face of change. Trees that have stood ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, ...

Each horizontal bar represents the tree-ring pattern for one tree ... and dead samples from the long-lived bristlecone pine (the oldest one has been growing for a remarkable 4,600 years ...

However, many old trees have long lost the core of their trunk, so scientists have to rely on both the rings they can see, as well as statistical models that project the total number of rings ...

Cobb Landmarks is partnering with the University of West Georgia to date Atlanta’s oldest remaining structures by examining the tree rings of the timber used in construction.

Once they figured out how they were related, they could then apply what they found to centuries-old tree rings to come up with a streamflow timeline dating back 1822. It's particularly useful in ...

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 ...