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 ...

English Heritage has published new research into the picture, supporting the fact it may depict Lady Jane Grey, but its ...

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.

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 ...

The clues to this forgotten climate saga weren’t discovered in ice cores or tree rings but rather in human memories — diaries ...

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

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 ...

Dendrochronology, from the Greek words for “tree” (dendros) and “time” (chronos), uses tree rings to study the histories of forests, the climate, and human civilizations, as well as the links among ...

Similar to tree rings determining a tree's age, fire scars help scientists learn how many fires happened in the area and when. TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It might surprise you to learn wildfire ...