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The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals but an atlas based on scientific evidence uses tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 year

Tree rings could hold clues to climate change and forest change.

Nine years ago, courageous firefighters saved Arizona's potentially oldest living icon. A week later, 19 of them died while battling the Yarnell Hill wildfire.

When an old building is demolished, its construction materials can reveal the secrets of the past.

Timbers taken from demolished buildings in the city can extend by hundreds of years how far back in time scientists can tell what the climate was.

New York Citys Hidden Old-Growth Forests Tree-Ring Scientists Are Salvaging Centuries of Climate and Historical Data From Demolished Structures Tree-ring scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are extracting climate and historical information from timbers salvaged out of old New York City buildings. Here, joists are carted away from the 2018 demolition of a circa 1890s warehouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. (Alan Solomon) In the popular imagination, ...