Researchers in western Colorado are studying tree rings along the Crystal River to understand its natural flow — and build a ...

In 2023, two men chopped down England’s Sycamore Gap tree, a tall, beloved specimen growing in a dip in the rolling landscape near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. The perpetrators were eventually ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

If you want to learn a tree’s age, you can count their rings. When it comes to humans, scientists have yet to find any ...

AnsThis fall, I had three somewhat decrepit ash trees cut down. A friend with a chainsaw cut a cross section so I could count the rings. How far out do the countable rings go? Do I count the rings in ...

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 building ...

A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event. A team led by Dr Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of ...

The world’s oldest tree may be housed in Chile after a new study found an ancient alerce tree known as “great grandfather” could be more than 5,000 years old. Scientists could not determine the exact ...

A composite image showing a tree ring and flames - UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. What is a “Miyake Event?” ...