“It was determined that a brief gustnado formed at this location, snapping the trunk of several hardwood trees and taking down several large softwood ... “My Ring camera was saying, ‘Tornado!

The Yaquina Bay State Park muscle tree, seen in a May 2, 2025 photo ... Also, a woodpecker or an amphibian can easily dig out that soft wood to make a home. And unlike on a log, a snag habitat is high ...

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

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

Wilkerson shows how to make art prints using tree ring slices, turning a simple material into stunning artwork.

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.

Jasmine Demers Nov 23, 2019 Nov 23, 2019 Updated May 15, 2020 For years, scientists have studied trees to learn about yearly rainfall, temperature and climate over time. Now, a University of ...

Researchers plan to determine how old the timber was when it was cut via dendrochronology, the study of tree rings. They may then freeze-dry the pipe to ensure its preservation. In the future ...

What it tells us about the past: More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusually well-preserved ...

Charcoal remnants and tree rings both show that fire frequency plummeted, dipping well below any previous period in the past 3,000 years. At the same time, common logging practices, which removed ...

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 ...