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.

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As the tree's years rings are analyzed for their strength, says the creator, so too are they analyzed for their thickness and rate of growth, and turned into a song that describes it all.

Tree rings, says Waddle, are a gold standard for measuring a tree’s history, one with which most people are familiar. The center, or pith, signifies when the tree established, or secured its roots and ...

Tree rings aid study of climate change and weather conditions Scientists are studying tree rings to learn about changes in climate over hundreds of years.

IDEAS The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

Researchers rely on tree rings, glaciers, and fossil records to put our current climate in context.

In a new paper, the authors explain how harvesting data from tree-rings could revolutionize the study of ancient civilizations such as the Egyptian and Mayan worlds. Until now scholars have had ...

Rings within the trunks of ancient fossilized trees showed evidence for the most powerful solar storm in history, 10 times stonger than the Carrington Event.

The book "Tree Story" explains how scientists decipher tree rings to discover clues about past climates and ancient civilizations.