TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life. Black, a ...

These experts have many years of experience in using tree rings to study climate and environmental change. They included Dr. Boniface O. Fosu of Mississippi State University, Prof. Michela Biasutti ...

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

When trees in coastal areas die a graveyard of dead trees—known as a ‘ghost forest’ is left behind. Salt-tolerant marsh plants take root and form a green carpet below the remains of the once-thriving ...

The first thing we can tell from the rings is the age of the tree, simply by counting backwards from the outermost layer, the one laid down most recently. But the rings also vary in width from one ...