In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

A heat dome has settled on a large part of the United States and now comes the "ring of fire." Here's what to expect in ...

An annular solar eclipse will create a “ring of fire” phenomenon in the sky over parts of South America on Wednesday. A partial eclipse will appear over Hawaii.

A “ring of fire” emerging during an annular eclipse in New Mexico in 2023. ... or perhaps observe the shadows that will be cast by trees instead of looking at the sun itself.

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 ...

Researchers studied an ancient forest of bald cypress trees preserved in subfossil form at the mouth of Georgia’s Altamaha River. Using radiocarbon dating and tree-ring analysis, they revealed a ...