Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lowell Observatory astronomer A.E. Douglass began developing the system of dendrochronology — the science of using tree rings, the ...

The centuries-old mystery over what went into building Antonio Stradivari's best violins may be narrowing to a single Alpine valley. A new study covered by the New York Times finds that the wood used ...

Similar to tree rings determining a tree's age, fire scars help scientists learn how many fires happened in the area and when. TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It might surprise you to learn wildfire activity ...

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 ...

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments.

Today while looking for something else I came across an interesting web page on the National Climatic Data Center Server that showed a study from 2002 A continuous multimillennial ring-width ...

Astronomical data hidden in cedars and pines reflects a handful of potentially devastating events, and suggests we may be overdue for the next one. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

Deep in the world's oldest forests, towering giants have been keeping detailed records for centuries. These ancient trees are far more than passive observers of time. Trees act as time capsules. The ...

Paleoclimate data, also known as climate proxies, is essential for investigating past climate variability and can help assess the extent of recent climate change. "Although the intensifying proxy ...

Whatever allure trees might hold, they also have scads of data stored within their trunks. Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, recently published “This ...

If a tree's rings are studied in a lab but no one hears them, do they make noise in the climate movement? An associate professor of oboe at the University of Arizona wondered. It led her to team up ...