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 ...

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

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 ...

In fact, after analysing rings in centuries-old tree trunks, we found the region has seen far worse "megadroughts" over the last 700 years. Australia's instrumental climate records only cover the last ...