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

In collaboration with partner institutions, a team of scientists from Florida Atlantic University investigated 95 specimens ...

And by matching up the rings in multiple long-dead trees, you can understand the rhythms of climate much farther back than any human records go. This is because when trees grow under certain ...

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 ...

Tree samples Griffin and his team bring back to the lab display little growth due to the drought, now in its 22nd year. The rings also indicate that today’s droughts stand out compared to those ...

These eruptions likely cast a volcanic winter over the northern hemisphere, impacting the trees at Mount Iškoras in Norway, where the study was conducted. "Blue rings look like unfinished growth ...

It led her to team up with an Australian melodist and a Tucson dendrochronologist — a scientist who uses tree ring growth patterns to understand past variations in environmental conditions ...

the team shaved and sanded the wood to better examine the rings (trees add new rings annually as they grow; size, color, and other information in the rings can reveal ancient climate events ...

The team are examining tree rings to determine how tree growth has been effected by past extreme climatic events in Ireland, particularly conditions causing meteorological drought. The project ...

The concentric rings in the trunk, besides indicating the age of the tree, also shed light on the corresponding weather conditions during each year of the tree's life. But growth rings are not ...