How do you determine the age of a tree? Just count the rings, of course! One ring equals one year of growth. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a tree stump you may have even done it yourself. But if you’re ...
Monitoring uranium contamination by drilling wells costs a lot, but a new study suggests it may be possible to do the same monitoring far more cheaply by coring trees on potentially radioactive sites.
How do you determine the age of a tree? Just count the rings, of course! One ring equals one year of growth. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a tree stump you may have even done it yourself. But if you’re ...
One sultry day last July, under skies dimmed by smoke from forest fires burning in Canada, Neil Pederson, 55, a senior forest ecologist with Harvard Forest, searched Green Lakes State Park for old ...
Professor Kevin Anchukaitis and graduate student Talia Anderson coring trees in Guatemala. This visual may only be used in conjunction with reporting on or posting of this news release. Credit must be ...