Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural ...

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.

Tree rings, says Waddle, are a gold standard for measuring a tree’s history, one with which most people are familiar. The center, or pith, signifies when the tree established, or secured its roots and ...

Another term for examining a tree core is “reading” it, because there is more to the story than just age – tree rings are clues to the life and trials of a tree and the forest in which it grows. My ...

She pulled in detailed tree ring growth records of 12 individual evergreen trees growing throughout Arizona — six Pinus edulis, three Pinus ponderosa and three Pseudotsuga menziesii — that had ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...

Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

This expansion creates growth rings, also called tree rings. Though growth rings are often hidden from view, the emblematic bullseye pattern can be seen on stumps left behind after felling a tree, or ...