Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

Pine rings record a sharp rise in rainfall intensity and volatility, showing modern extremes exceed patterns seen over the past 500 years.

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with growing ...

In the frigid landscapes of northern Norway, an unusual phenomenon etched into the rings of trees and shrubs has offered a glimpse into the Earth's climatic history. Scientists have discovered that ...

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 ...

When tree and climate expert Daniel Griffin learned that wildfire and high temperatures were threatening giant sequoias near Yosemite National Park, alarm bells went off in his head. Fueled by climate ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...