Horizontal cross sections cut through a trunk of a tree can tell us a little about the history of a tree in its own time ...

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 ...

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...

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 ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

Alison O'Donnell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Edward Cook receives funding from US National Science Foundation research grants. Pauline Grierson receives funding from the ...

Researcher Charlotte Pearson points to the light tree ring that could mark the year of the Thera eruption. Mikayla Mace Some 3,000 years ago, the volcano on the Greek island of Thera—now known as ...

The trunk might be the most neglected part of a tree. Leaves get the most attention, followed by the roots. But a trunk should not be taken for granted as it must be sturdy and healthy for the rest of ...