Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Quebec tree rings dating back nearly 200 years indicate snowpack in the Gaspésie mountains has declined considerably in ...

After carefully counting each ring of the tree, paleobotanist Scott Wing determined that the tree lived for 260 years, although he admits that may not be exactly correct. Each ring on the sequoia ...

The annual rings inside certain trees near ... rise in amalgam burning that began after the year 2000. “We show[ed] that Ficus insipda tree cores can be used as a biomonitor for characterizing ...

The air monitors used to measure mercury on land are expensive, so the researchers explored the possibility of using tree ... growth rings, which can be counted to determine the year they were ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and spread of this toxin.

A study of tree rings in the Gaspésie’s Sainte-Anne River area reveals that snowpacks have been declining noticeably in the ...

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 ...

But after months of short-term drought across Arizona, the stream gently rippled by on a February outing. The water level was so low it didn’t reach the rocky riverbank. It was a sign of how the lack ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new study. Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method ...