Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Frank the tree, a bur oak that has stood for more than 250 years as one of Missouri’s oldest, is being removed this month due to damage from fungal infection. The hardy bur ...

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with growing ...

Scientists analyzed tree growth rings to investigate whether the Amazon Basin is indeed drying up, as shown by extreme droughts in 2023 and 2024. Their study revealed that over the past four decades, ...