If a tree's rings are studied in a lab but no one hears them, do they make climate research sounder? Musicians at the UA want to know.

A time capsule recording past environmental conditions, tree rings allow us see how trees might respond to future climate change ...

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

Tree rings going back 800 years are giving researchers at the University of Arizona a window into how climate change could expand the planet’s most extreme deserts, including the Sonoran, ...

Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1 The hottest summer before climate change was 246, but last year's was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer.

Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau over the course of almost 3,500 years and found a link between major changes and the downfall of some of the most ...

For this, tree rings are particularly valuable. They not only show the tree's age, but also record detailed information about the state of the climate each year as they grow.

A commentary on climate change and "The Lord of the Rings" prequel "The Rings of Power," Episode 7 "The Eye" ...

Anthony Fowler, who works with Boswijk at New Zealand’s Tree-Ring Laboratory, specializes in looking at climate change. Some of the information he can deduce from the patterns of tree-ring ...

New data on over 1,500 trees across nearly 1,000 sites shows that an existing theory of how individuals within a species will respond to a changing climate might not be true.