Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say. By Katherine Kornei A rumble, a deluge of snow and then silence — ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new 1,200 year-long time series based on tree rings shows that the current warming is unprecedented during this period. This is reported by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, ...

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

Scientists use tree rings to analyze centuries of droughts, climate change Scientists at the University of Arizona's tree-ring research lab study the rings to learn about climate changes throughout ...