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.

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 ...

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.

Although both the trunk and roots of a tree produce annual rings, they can develop at different rates so it’s not straightforward to correlate their growth.

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 ...

Plans were also announced to put the largest section of tree on public display at The Sill, a visitor attraction near the site, in September 2024. And prints were created from a cross-section of ...

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 ...

An unusual northern rātā tree that looks like it is striding across an empty field has been crowned New Zealand's Tree of the Year. The giant plant, which looks strikingly similar to an Ent from ...