With the historical drought in California causing the death of something like 102 Million trees in the Sierra Nevada, the topic of tree mortality is hotter than ever. It is usually easy to see ifContinue reading
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Tree rings indicate: World has been cooling for 2000 years
In 2012, an international team of scientists published a study, where they reconstructed climate in northern Europe for the past 2 000 years. For the first time, the cooling trend was calculated precisely. Read moreContinue reading
What can tree rings tell us about Earth’s past?
This month, scientists from University of Oxford published extra-ordinary finding. They have identified a new way of putting accurate dates to great events of prehistory. This new way is called astrochronology and, in this case,Continue reading