In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

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 ...

Wider tree rings may indicate a warm, wet year — while fine tree rings could represent a cold and dry season, the same source recounted. ‘Size and growth of tree rings’ ...

“What tree rings can do is enhance those records,” Pederson said. “The satellite record…represents a small portion of the life of a tree, let alone the ‘life’ of a forest.

Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08634-y ...

"Tree-rings reveal secret clocks that could reset key dates across the ancient world." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 17 August 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 08 / 160817091040.htm>.

Tree rings preserve clues about past environments. A wide ring, for example, records a rainy year; a thin ring corresponds to a dry one. Even forest fires leave telltale marks. C. Chang ...

And the tree ring building is round, to architecturally represent a tree. It felt like a perfect merging of architecture, shape, sound, data, wood material and science.