Indigenous people have long used fire to care for the land, and tree rings suggest those fires helped mitigate drought and ...

We have a natural fascination with time – how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life. Black, a ...

A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event. A team led by Dr Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of ...

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In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

A composite image showing a tree ring and flames - UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. What is a “Miyake Event?” ...

An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has ...

Michael Worthington of the Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory uses a drill to take a core sample from a wooden barn at Cremona Farm in Mechanicsville, Md. By studying the rings, Worthington can estimate when ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As the United Nations Climate Change Conference concludes in Copenhagen, ...