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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 political upheavals.

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 ...

Those scars help scientists determine how often fires occurred in an area and when. Using a fire scar dataset known as the North American Tree-Ring Fire Scar Network, which originated from work done ...

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 ...

Because tree rings tend to grow wider in warmer, wetter years and thinner in drier, colder years, they act as a record of natural climate variability and offer a complementary approach to model ...

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...