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.

Expert reveals that 'pattern of large and small rings that commonly occur in a sequence of tree rings provides basis for tree-ring dating' Primary Menu Sections. US News. ... fire and insect pests ...

They used radiocarbon dating, counted tree rings, and measured the width of each ring in the subfossils to investigate how these trees grew in the past. These remains tell a striking story.

“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle.

When trees are exposed to non-lethal fires, their bark chars, leaving behind a burn scar in the tree rings. The team dated the earliest definite fire scar to 1772.

I n a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves. They are ragged with age, scarred from fire, with bark like the crust of a lava flow. But on the face of each enormous slab ...

Grass and oak trees burned during the Basin Fire in the Sierra National Forest in Fresno County, California, on June 27, 2024. Forests can benefit from wildfires, but modern wildfires are ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic trees, with their knobby "knees" and towering trunks, are more than just ...