Every tree tells a story and scientists are placing their bets on tree rings to unlock the past and predict future climate ...

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major ...

Determining the degree to which shifting drought conditions around the world are attributable to natural hydroclimatic ...

The most familiar of these so-called biochronologies are tree rings, which form every year in response to seasonal cycles in temperature and rainfall. Dendrochronology—the art of tree-ring ...

But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Tibetan tree rings link climate change ...

The water cycle causes isotopes to become rain or precipitation, and become locked inside the ice sheets. If both the tree ring and ice sheet indicate a blast of solar particulars at a particular ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara ...

It actually experiences a growth spurt—with new cells growing between the previous year's tree ring and the tree's bark. The cells that grow during this initial period are large. As the season ...