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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tree rings "prove [the] climate was WARMER in Roman ... They showed that density measurements give a slightly different reading of historic temperature fluctuations than ring width ...

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 ...

The science of reading tree-rings, that is — seeing what those wee strips have to tell us about both past and future. “Appleseed” achieves a similar breadth of vision, taking in America’s ...

Nowadays, though, much of the work at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research is about the future of a planet that’s squaring off against global warming and its cascading ...

Dendrochronologists are experts at reading tree rings. They can learn a great deal of information—including past climate in an area and the age of the tree—by taking a tree core sample and ...