Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life. Old growth trees continue to decline around the world (SN: 6/18/18). In Europe, the remaining patches of forest with ...

Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than anywhere else At the foot of Zhongnan Mountain in the Chinese city of Xian, ...

Experience the wonder of ancient trees with this excerpt from the new book “In Search of the Old Ones” Anthony D. Fredericks The sky, resplendent as a shard of Navajo turquoise, highlighted the ...

BILLINGS – For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation ...

An ancient Great Basin bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, nearly 5,000 years old, holds the title of the ...

BIG PINE, Calif. (KSWB/KUSI) — Hidden high in the White Mountains of eastern California, a gnarled, weathered tree quietly holds a staggering secret — it’s nearly 5,000 years old. Known as the ...

A new study of bald cypress trees reveals how ancient climate shifts, starting around 500 A.D., drastically shortened tree ...

Trees are living museums and their rings are able to shed light on climate change, colony collapses, archeology, tsunamis, fire histories and radio carbon dating. Each year tree species in the ...

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