Scientists analyzed tree growth rings to investigate whether the Amazon Basin is indeed drying up, as shown by extreme droughts in 2023 and 2024. Their study revealed that over the past four decades, ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

Last year's summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, ancient tree rings reveal. Researchers already knew that 2023 was one for the books, with average temperatures soaring past anything recorded since ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the ...

Jasmine Demers Nov 23, 2019 Nov 23, 2019 Updated May 15, 2020 For years, scientists have studied trees to learn about yearly rainfall, temperature and climate over time. Now, a University of Arizona ...

An international team, led by Professor Chenxi Xu from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has generated the first continental-scale isoscapes of δ¹⁸O TR across Asia ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A new study from the University of Arizona reveals how historical tree-ring data can help predict extreme summer weather events. Researchers, led by Ellie Broadman, analyzed ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Frank the tree, a bur oak that has stood for more than 250 years as one of Missouri’s oldest, is being removed this month due to damage from fungal infection. The hardy bur ...