By reading the rings on a cross-section of trunk, we know when a tree was happy and when it was stressed. The rings tell the story of a tree’s life. From my seat in front of my computer ...

Reading the climate stories these trees tell ... In recent years, the techniques for extracting information from tree rings has been honed and expanded. New technologies and techniques are able ...

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, ...

Reading the climate stories these trees tell ... In recent years, the techniques for extracting information from tree rings has been honed and expanded. New technologies and techniques are able ...

Tree rings are a prime method for assessing climate change and Dr Fowler believes kauri trees could be particularly helpful at uncovering El Nino's secrets. "We completed a project recently that ...

Those are years under your fingers. Every spring in much of the world, the cells under a tree’s bark wake up and start to divide. This forms a visible ring marking each year of the organism’s ...

Having done that, I cannot resist counting tree rings and reading the story of their life’s fortunes. Tree ring analysis is valuable in a number of different venues besides dating archaeological ...

Here’s how it works. A bizarre, giant tree with a pair of leg-like trunks looks like an Ent from "The Lord of the Rings" — and it has just been crowned New Zealand's Tree of the Year after ...