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What tree rings can tell us about climate change Updated / Friday, 31 Mar 2023 13:49 'This research shows how trees can respond to adversity.' Photo: Mabel Amber/Pixabay. Analysis: a ...

Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural ...

It also makes trees seem like a convenient solution to the climate crisis. In 2015, at the United Nations climate conference in Paris, representatives from 196 countries hatched a plan to limit ...

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.

Scientists can, with reasonable certainty, use tree rings to draw conclusions about individual years in the Northern Hemisphere (536 CE was the coldest, for instance, likely because of volcanic ...

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 ...