The Bannister Building looks distinct among the typical red-brick buildings on campus, yet students walking by, preoccupied by their phones and classes, fail to notice the 40-foot-long steel columns ...
Like careful note-takers during the past 1,250 years, Engelmann spruce trees high in the Yellowstone National Park backcountry have left behind a record of how harsh summer temperatures have been. A ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Tree rings reveal a climate record deep into the past. Pixabay Neil ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Archaeologist Thomas Windes started taking tree-ring samples from very old buildings 35 years ago. That was at ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — East Tennessee’s roller-coaster climate featured a range of record-setting droughts and downpours in recent years. When extreme floods or dry conditions set records, the official ...
Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...
Tree-ring samples taken by Paulo Quadri, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz, were included in the study. (Photo by Luz A. de Wit) The top-line findings of a massive ...
An enormous solar storm that occurred 7,000 years ago has helped archaeologists to date an ancient settlement in northern Greece. A spike in radiocarbon was spotted in the wood from which these ...
The tree rings provide a look at climate history, which can then be related to historical events. For example, the 1988 wildland fires that swept through Yellowstone coincide with the ...