In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

Dendrochronology—the art of tree-ring counting—allows us to precisely date trees. Based on the rings in its trunk, a bristlecone pine in eastern California known as Methuselah is said to be ...

PORTLAND, Maine – For the first time, scientists have figured out how to determine the age of a lobster — by counting its rings, like a tree. Nobody knows how old lobsters can live to be; some ...

Banner image: Tree rings on a dead tree. The study involved a team of 100 researchers who contributed tree-ring data from 30 tropical and subtropical countries. Image by danielkirsch via Pixabay .

Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale. Nature Communications , 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08634-y Cite This Page : ...

Those tree rings also showed that during six decades, from 1568 until 1634, there was, because of natural climate variation, six decades of expansion of the subtropics, ...

It’s long been accepted that everyone talks about the weather, but voiceless trees keep a long, detailed climate record.That fact dawned on me while sitting in the dappled shade of an oak tre… ...

IDEAS The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

Showing Knighton a tree ring sample, Pearson said, "We're moving backwards through time here. Here we change between A.D. and B.C., and we're into the B.C. period now, ...

Those tree rings also showed that during six decades, from 1568 until 1634, there was, because of natural climate variation, six decades of expansion of the subtropics, ...