Horizontal cross sections cut through a trunk of a tree can tell us a little about the history of a tree in its own time ...

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 ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

Frank's rings reveal clues about past climate conditions — whether periods were cold or dry as the tree developed.

A processed cross-section of Longleaf pine shows the dark bands of the late-season wood. (Image courtesy of Justin Maxwell) The rings within a tree's trunk can tell a story filled to the brim with ...

Alison O'Donnell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Edward Cook receives funding from US National Science Foundation research grants. Pauline Grierson receives funding from the ...

Opinion: Tree Rings as Soothsayers Not only can studying the growth patterns obscured within tree trunks tell us about the past, the field can also help us plan for the future.

Researcher Charlotte Pearson points to the light tree ring that could mark the year of the Thera eruption. Mikayla Mace Some 3,000 years ago, the volcano on the Greek island of Thera—now known as ...

My landscape company was just working on my garden and finished edging all the beds and tree rings. Should I be concerned about the soil piled up against the base of my trees? — Jacob Anderson, ...