Archaeologists have a group of unlikely allies: trees. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside ...

Then, he lays a thin sheet of Japanese rice paper on the cross-section, rubs it with his hand and peels the paper back to reveal a relief print of the tree’s growth rings. Gill recalls the very ...

A scientist sands a tree cookie, a cross section of a dead tree trunk. The cookies must be sanded so the rings can be easily seen and measured.

Tree Story Valerie Trouet Johns Hopkins Univ., $27. Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again.

This cross-section of a white oak tree dating back to the mid 1600s hangs in the new Indigenous learning space at Western University. It measures 9 feet (2.7 metres) across. (Kate Dubinski/CBC) ...

Climate Solutions Tree rings from centuries past may help reveal a warming planet’s future. Armed with the world’s largest collection of tree rings, scientists are looking for clues to climate ...

One year after the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down a 7ft (2m) section of the trunk has returned home. The piece is now the star-attraction in a new exhibition at The Sill visitor centre near ...

A collection of five prints created from the trunk of the Sycamore Gap tree have gone on public display. The 200-year-old tree, which towered 50ft above Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, was ...

One year after the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down a 7ft (2m) section of the trunk has returned home. The piece is now the star-attraction in a new exhibition at The Sill visitor centre near ...