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 ...

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 ...

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A scientific date is either absolute (specific to one point in time) or relative (younger or older than something else). Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides absolute dates in two different ...

Tropical cyclones like Hurricane Ida can cause severe flooding, producing disruptions, damage, and loss of life. Like many other types of weather, tropical cyclones and hurricanes on the US East Coast ...

If a tree's rings are studied in a lab but no one hears them, do they make noise in the climate movement? An associate professor of oboe at the University of Arizona wondered. It led her to team up ...

The death of a star is one of the most spectacular events in the universe. After millions and often billions of years, the star’s fuel supply runs out. Without its nuclear fire to sustain it, the star ...