Reading the climate stories these trees tell ... In recent years, the techniques for extracting information from tree rings has been honed and expanded. New technologies and techniques are able ...

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As their limbs stretch and twist ...

Those are years under your fingers. Every spring in much of the world, the cells under a tree’s bark wake up and start to divide. This forms a visible ring marking each year of the organism’s ...

Tree rings suggest the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, with temperatures exceeding those of the coldest summer in the same period by 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 ...

Earth was hit by the largest-ever detected solar storm 14,300 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal. If a storm of a similar magnitude hit our planet today, it could have potentially catastrophic ...

Despite its status as a prequel, Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power still ... warrior and a balrog of Moria over a beautiful tree at the top of the Misty Mountains.

To see how drastically the climate has changed over millennia, the authors of the new paper studied ancient tree rings to gauge fluctuations in temperatures over the years. The results show us how ...

We analysed radioactive signatures left in tree rings around the world to study mysterious “radiation storms” that have swept over Earth half a dozen times in the past 10,000 years or so.

An international team of scientists has discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. The radiocarbon spike was caused by ...