IDEAS The rings inside trees are beginning to tell a different story If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

Ross Toro is a contributing infographic artist for Live Science. He specializes in explanatory graphics that deal with science topics.

In this graphic by the Tree of Life web project and designer Leonard Eisenberg, we see all 3.5 billion years of life on earth evolving, not through limbs and timelines, but an elegant rainbow swirl.

Scientists examined tree rings from the past 1,200 years and found that the current pattern of global warming is unprecedented during the Common Era. This finding has long been confirmed by models of ...

Ask any second grader what you can do with the rings on a tree, and they'll respond, "Learn the age of the tree!" They're not wrong, but dendrochronology—the dating of trees based on patterns in ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct ...

A Virginia man who lost his ring at a Christmas tree farm was reunited with the precious item 15 years later.

The enormous Rockefeller tree may be a sight to behold, but how does it compare with its little cousins, the regular Christmas trees that decorate people's homes?

Rings within the trunks of ancient fossilized trees showed evidence for the most powerful solar storm in history, 10 times stonger than the Carrington Event.

Design student JT Fridsma's infographic is a charming way to revisit the great adventures of the Fellowship of the Ring.