Not only do Aragorn's heroics forever change Middle-earth, but his family history plays a major role in The Lord of the Rings ...

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 longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As their limbs stretch and twist ...

But this tree was far more important ... Frodo she will do so knowing that the destruction of the One Ring will cause the beauty of the elves—the beauty of the light of Valinor—to fade ...

Quebec tree rings dating back nearly 200 years indicate ... beyond just their ecosystem services and their beauty.” ...

Quebec tree rings dating back nearly 200 years indicate snowpack in the Gaspésie mountains has declined considerably in recent decades, Concordia University researchers suggest in a study that ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct ...

A new 1,200 year-long time series based on tree rings shows that the current warming is unprecedented during this period. This is reported by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for ...