Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy ...

IDEAS The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

Researchers rely on tree rings, glaciers, and fossil records to put our current climate in context. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive ...

They used radiocarbon dating, counted tree rings, and measured the width of each ring in the subfossils to investigate how these trees grew in the past. These remains tell a striking story.

You can grow any deciduous fruit tree in our part of the world but only those varieties that have a low winter chilling requirement — less than 300 hours below 45 degrees during the winter ...

Tree rings suggest the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, with temperatures exceeding those of the coldest summer in the same period by 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 ...

In both Seattle and Juneau, Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) are thriving in full-sun locations whereas, in our climate, full-day sun burns the foliage of these trees.

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