The release of e-mails hacked from University of East Anglia climate scientists in 2009 (unimaginatively dubbed “Climategate” in media scandalese) generated about as much public discussion as any ...

Climate reconstructions based on tree rings have become a major point of contention. In 1998, a climate scientist by the name of Michael Mann had the misfortune of publishing a Northern Hemisphere ...

For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

The tree was planted around 1905 and puts on growth of about 1cm per year It’s been dubbed "the loneliest tree on the planet" because of its remote location, but the Sitka spruce might represent ...

The U.S. is currently in a decade-long hurricane “drought”: no major hurricanes of category 3 or higher have made landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Wilma hit Florida in 2005. With damage costs for ...