Exploration of the great outdoors includes a fascination with the trees around us — and here, an expert in tree-ring research reveals some of the details about what trees can tell us.

Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

Most species of trees form annual growth rings. Researchers can count the number of rings in samples of wood extracted from living specimens and precisely determine a tree’s age.

The most accurate way foresters determine the age of a tree is by counting the growth rings of a severed tree stump or by taking a core sample using an increment borer. However, it is not always ...

One tricky part is that while growth rings on trees represent years, the growth rings on octopus represent days. According to the team, these methods will need to be customized for each of the ...

You may be familiar with counting tree rings to see how old a tree is, but the thickness of tree rings and other patterns in the wood, like fire scars, can reveal how quickly a tree has grown and ...

If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative. In a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves ...

The summer of 2021 was the Northwest’s hottest in at least 1,000 years, according to a new study of some very old trees. In June 2021, Karen Heeter was living in a two-story brick apartment ...

Black has applied tree-ring techniques to fish, clams and coral, which form similar annual rings as they grow. “I had no idea that fish lived a long time or formed rings but was intrigued by it ...