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 ...

Blue rings found in the stems of trees and bushes in Norway point to ... Trees require warm periods in a year to grow ...

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 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new Cornell University study.

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...