Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers say. By Katherine Kornei A rumble, a deluge of snow and then silence — ...

Because growing conditions vary from year to year, the rings are not uniform. The record of good (wide ring) and slow (narrow ...

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 ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative. In a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves. They ...

In the frigid landscapes of northern Norway, an unusual phenomenon etched into the rings of trees and shrubs has offered a glimpse into the Earth's climatic history. Scientists have discovered that ...

A photo of a shipwreck, buried in silt for centuries and containing cargo in unbroken ceramic vessels, drew the only gasps at a recent seminar on the archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University ...

A rumble, a deluge of snow and then silence — avalanches can be deadly, but they often leave behind little enduring evidence of their passage. Now, researchers have turned to tree rings to reconstruct ...