A court has been told that the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in an “act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage.” ...

Trees nearest the mines had higher concentrations of mercury in their rings. Passive air sampling confirmed the mercury measurements.

Niagara County’s nature lovers may remember when forests were adrift with blooming native trilliums in early May. Those local trails of trilliums are fewer and farther between. Conservationists have ...

The city had to remove a towering tree from the Old Decatur Historic District on Friday for safety reasons, one of many trees that have either fallen or had to removed in recent months. The effort to ...

LONDON — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian’s ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

The study used oak tree-ring records to reconstruct temperature ... average monthly reconstructed rainfall in the main growing season (April–July) was 51 mm. But in 364 CE, it fell to just ...

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

The University of Cambridge-led study, published in Climatic Change, used oak tree-ring records to reconstruct ... reconstructed rainfall in the main growing season (April-July) was 51 mm.

Its former glory is gone: chunks of branches strewn on the ground around it, its thick rings exposed ... of leaves growing on the remains of branches that have been cut off the tree.

Wang and colleagues radiocarbon dated the stumps’ outermost rings to find out when the trees had stopped growing, and the answer is around 2,100 years ago (give or take about 70 years).