But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major ...

Determining the degree to which shifting drought conditions around the world are attributable to natural hydroclimatic variability and how much they are caused by climate change is a complicated task.

It actually experiences a growth spurt—with new cells growing between the previous year's tree ring and the tree's bark. The cells that grow during this initial period are large. As the season ...

Every tree tells a story and scientists are placing their bets on tree rings to unlock the past and predict future climate ...

The most familiar of these so-called biochronologies are tree rings, which form every year in response to seasonal cycles in temperature and rainfall. Dendrochronology – the art of tree-ring ...

ABOVE: ©istock.com, Mehmet Gökhan Bayhan T o tell the age of a tree, you count its rings. Most people know that. But few people know that the rings in trees can tell us much more than just a tree’s ...

If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Tibetan tree rings link climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties Researchers have used tree rings to track ...

Scientists analyzed 1,850 tree-ring records in historically burned areas and compared them to maps documenting the perimeters of modern fires across Canada and the United States. The findings show ...

Changes in the tree rings’ isotopes – forms of a chemical element with specific properties – can be used to understand precipitation variations over time. This enabled the researchers ...