In April, the UK Information Commissioner's Office ruled that Queen's University Belfast must hand over data obtained during 40 years of research into 7,000 years of Irish tree rings to a City banker ...

MOLINE, Ill. — The first derecho to impact the Quad Cities in 2023 is now in the books, bringing winds up to 120 mph to parts of the region. Hancock County in Illinois was especially hard hit with ...

Earthquake effects are often thought of in terms of the human impact, be that fatalities or destruction to homes and infrastructure. However, the environmental toll can also be damaging, and new ...

Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...

Ask any second grader what you can do with the rings on a tree, and they’ll respond, “Learn the age of the tree!” They’re not wrong, but dendrochronology—the dating of trees based on patterns in their ...

Researchers used more than 1,400 climate-sensitive tree-ring chronologies from multiple tree species across North America to reconstruct the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI), a widely used soil ...

The activity below allows you to build a tree-ring chronology. Each horizontal bar represents the tree-ring pattern for one tree. By looking for matches in the patterns, you should be able to build an ...