There are a couple of things to consider before scientists survey trees. First, they must find a site where humans haven’t affected the area with logging or other research. Then they pick a ...

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 ...

Analysis: a time capsule recording past environmental conditions, tree rings allow us see how trees might respond to future climate change The rings of a tree are like a time capsule recording ...

By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has previously reported on the study of tree rings at Viking settlement sites and in Stradivarius violins. Olive trees are common in Northern Lebanon ...