Michael Worthington of the Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory uses a drill to take a core sample from a wooden barn at Cremona Farm in Mechanicsville, Md. By studying the rings, Worthington can estimate ...

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In this core sample, a ring of wood from that year never had a chance to grow. A decade of relatively dry years followed. There was little rain in 1579, and the next year even less.

A wooden ship unearthed at the World Trade Center site is dated to Revolutionary-Era Philadelphia, according to clues contained in tree rings.

Here was a ring to rule them all. It came not from the fires of Mordor, but from a tree in New Zealand. And its secrets were written not in Elvish script, but in the annual pattern of its growth.

The architecture firm COOKFOX—Cook has a house not far from the Tree Ring Lab—called up the researchers to invite them to see the wood at the site. On a recent visit, Rao and his colleagues ...

In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

The study part of an emerging field of tree-ring science found the West’s two-decade drought is inextricably linked to rising temperatures Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy ...