Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

In 2023, two men chopped down England’s Sycamore Gap tree, a tall, beloved specimen growing in a dip in the rolling landscape near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. The perpetrators were eventually ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is turning 60—and we’re celebrating with the help of trees! In this video, we count tree ...

We've all heard about counting the rings inside a tree trunk to discover its age. But there are other ways to determine a tree's age without chopping it down.

AnsThis fall, I had three somewhat decrepit ash trees cut down. A friend with a chainsaw cut a cross section so I could count the rings. How far out do the countable rings go? Do I count the rings in ...

Try to rewrite American history using that average,” he said. “It doesn’t work.” Tree rings found in archaeological digs can more accurately date when something was built, he said. In addition, the ...

The world’s oldest tree may be housed in Chile after a new study found an ancient alerce tree known as “great grandfather” could be more than 5,000 years old. Scientists could not determine the exact ...

A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world's oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as "great grandfather" could be more than 5,000 years old. By ...