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 ...

The first thing we can tell from the rings is the age of the tree, simply by counting backwards from the outermost layer, the one laid down most recently. But the rings also vary in width from one ...

In 2023, two men chopped down England’s Sycamore Gap tree, a tall, beloved specimen growing in a dip in the rolling landscape ...