People tasked with managing landscapes identified three key ingredients for constructing credible ecological scenarios.

Michigan’s forests face increasing wildfire risks as climate change worsens conditions everywhere. MLive recently examined that threat and a somewhat paradoxical environmental solution: experts say ...

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and twist toward the sky in search of sun, ...

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

Analysis of this tree ring/snowpack/river relationship—which was previously undocumented in eastern North America—suggests that the region was affected quite early by modern climate change.

By studying the tree rings in the Sainte-Anne River basin, the researchers say they observed a climate-change linked decline in extreme spring river flows and snowpack levels since 1937. "The ...

The tree ring study goes back to 1822, extending by more than 100 years the records otherwise kept by local weather stations and river gauges. It underlines how climate change has already ...

Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the ... Although the most accurate climate data only dates back 200 years or so, the team was able to go back much further using ...

Climate change is altering the story that trees are ... astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass founded the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.

and tree rings continue to show that it was about 0.4 degrees (0.2 degrees Celsius) cooler than thermometers show. That means there's been a bit more warming from human-caused climate change than ...