Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and twist toward the sky in ...

Unlike other representations of William Shakespeare, Steven’s portrait was painted on wood panels rather than canvas. Researchers were able to pinpoint when the painting was made with dendrochronology ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Frank the tree, a bur oak that has stood for more than 250 years as one of Missouri’s oldest, is being removed this month due to damage from fungal infection. The hardy bur ...

An enormous solar storm that occurred 7,000 years ago has helped archaeologists to date an ancient settlement in northern Greece. A spike in radiocarbon was spotted in the wood from which these ...

A photo of a shipwreck, buried in silt for centuries and containing cargo in unbroken ceramic vessels, drew the only gasps at a recent seminar on the archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University ...

Sunlight filters through the canopy of pines, holly, sweet gum, and red maple while bird calls echo in the distance. These coastal forests may seem like others in the Mid-Atlantic, but a hidden ...

A red aurora over Engaru, Hokkaido, Japan, similar to those documented throughout history, which helped the researchers reconstruct past solar activity Tomohiro M. Nakayama In February of 1204, ...

A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...

For those who can read them, tree rings offer a glimpse into the past. Christopher Roos is one of those people, and he’s using them to shed light on a story that reveals how Western Apache tribes have ...