By ALYSSA VAN DOORN The Outside Story The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip ...

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 ...

trees need an adequate period of warmth during their growing seasons; otherwise, the cell walls of new growth won't develop ...

This semester, students in Prof. Kinuyo Kanamaru’s class studied sections of the tree to determine how climate change may ...

Tree ring widths, which reflect the dry or wet conditions affecting tree growth annually, provide valuable proxy climate data from before historical recordkeeping began. Rui Guo and colleagues ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo ICT Around the World: Tree rings show mercury pollution from Peru's illegal mining, Air New Zealand unveils Māori, Pasifika-inspired new uniforms, and access to food in remote ...

That model can be applied to the rings that formed before climate records began to reconstruct past conditions. The challenge ...