Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

PLATTEVILLE, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal ) — Some people use clocks and calendars to track time. Evan Larson and Christopher Underwood use trees. Across a valley, they can recognize the ...

Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...

The UA has plenty of special features to offer, but one of its more overlooked aspects is its abundant plant life—specifically, that of the Laboratory of Tree-ring Research. UA’s tree-ring lab right ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Archaeologist Thomas Windes started taking tree-ring samples from very old buildings 35 years ago. That was at ...

This image shows a Brazil nut tree in Jaú National Park, Amazonas, Brazil. (Victor Caetano-Andrade) (CN) – Dr. Seuss’ Lorax spoke for the trees, but what can the trees say about us? Research published ...

Scientists examined tree rings from the past 1,200 years and found that the current pattern of global warming is unprecedented during the Common Era. This finding has long been confirmed by models of ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...