If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

often called fairy rings, around their bases. These trees are all clones of the parent, and their DNA could be thousands of years old. Redwood cones, oddly enough, are tiny—the size of an olive ...

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...

Bristlecone rings, which vary in width year to year, reveal that the trees have an innate ability ... The tallest sequoia, a coast redwood found in Montgomery State Reserve near Ukiah, California ...

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than 250 ft. tall, with a circumference greater than 90 ft. at their base. The oldest have seen more than 3,000 years.

As for medium trees try trident maple, Chinese pistache, eastern redcedar, dogwood, crape myrtle, and several types of ...

Q. Can you tell me what could have made lumps on the trunk of a tree my wife and I found in the Smokies? The lumps range from ...

Walk through a redwood grove and stop to watch dancers ... In one dance, the performer emerges from a fairy ring of newer trees surrounding the charred stump, as if birthed from the old tree ...

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To visit the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt County is to be surrounded by the rich browns, deep reds and lush greens of the redwood forest. This iconic stretch of old Highway 101, now state ...

Learn more› By Ayanna Redwood-Crawford Ayanna Redwood-Crawford ... We’re currently testing the recently released Oura Ring 4, and will update this guide soon with our impressions.

Suburban residents who wanted free firewood for the winter of 1996 could’ve obtained plenty of it from the muttering hitters ...