In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

By analyzing the tree rings from the timber used to build the ship, they establish that the ship’s planks were cut in the winter of 1448-1449. Photograph by Marc Steinmetz, VISUM/Redux.

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier.

Tree rings provide evidence for what he calls mega-droughts, more intense and long-lasting than any of the 20th century — worse even than the devastating Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s.

Valerie Trouet, professor at the University of Arizona, spoke about how she studies tree rings to see how they relate to the climate, specifically the frequency of hurricanes.

Tom Swetnam says tree rings tell the tale of how climate, fire and people interacted hundreds and thousands of years ago. Today that interaction continues, and Swetnam says climate change is ...

Last year, we wrote about a real climate science debate taking place between researchers who look at tree ring records of past climate. Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, well-known for ...

Barbara Gregory of Kentucky found her late husband Glenn's wedding ring near the tree the two had planted on their property when they got married 61 years earlier.

The radiocarbon spike in the tree rings was found to line up with patterns in beryllium levels in Greenland ice cores, indicating that the spike was caused by a huge solar storm. "We checked our ...

Tree ring data from the Pacific Northwest reveal that the region’s average summer temperature in 2021 was the highest since at least the year 950. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

"Disturbing" new research into the rings of millennia-old trees claims that mystery solar events occur every 1,000 years, can't be predicted and we have no idea what kind of damage they might ...