High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...

Science isn't always perfect, and decades ago, a graduate student's simple experiment proved that, though exactly why he did what he did remains a mystery.

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the sun that can disrupt ...

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 ...