Cypress tree forest on the seafloor off Alabama reveals how extreme storms and rising seas transformed the coastline 75,000 ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic trees, with their knobby "knees" and towering trunks, are more than just swamp ...

The bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky wetlands of the American Southeast. These towering trees are some of the ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang ...

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

Trees need a certain number of warm days in their growing seasons to grow properly; otherwise, the cell walls of new growth don't lignify properly, creating blue rings that appear when wood samples ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A new study from the University of Arizona reveals how historical tree-ring data can help predict extreme summer weather events. Researchers, led by Ellie Broadman, analyzed ...

Trees are known for absorbing CO2. But microbes in their bark also absorb other climate-active gases, methane, hydrogen, and ...

There are ancient secrets about our planet hidden where one would least expect: in tree rings, deep in ocean beds, in the shells of crustaceans. Together, these form a vast archive of Earth’s “climate ...

Because growing conditions vary from year to year, the rings are not uniform. The record of good (wide ring) and slow (narrow ring) years reads like a barcode, and because the trees in a given area ...

Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An ...