Dendrochronology is the practice of using tree rings to determine the age of a tree. But tree rings have a lot more to tell ...

Centuries-old trees can hold clues about global weather patterns. A new UA study unlocked some of those clues.

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 bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky wetlands of the American Southeast. These towering trees are some of the ...

Quahog clams can live for more than 500 years and the layers of their shells can give an unbroken “annual record of ocean conditions,” according to a news release from the University of Exeter.