The Bannister Building looks distinct among the typical red-brick buildings on campus, yet students walking by, preoccupied by their phones and classes, fail to notice the 40-foot-long steel columns ...

Like careful note-takers during the past 1,250 years, Engelmann spruce trees high in the Yellowstone National Park backcountry have left behind a record of how harsh summer temperatures have been. A ...

Thanks to a generous donation announced Friday, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research will now have a place to house its samples. Last month, Agnese N. Haury, the widow of one of the lab’s founders, ...

PLYMOUTH – What is the oldest house in Plymouth? For years, the Richard Sparrow House at 42 Summer St. has been recognized as the oldest surviving wood framed home in town. The house, now operated as ...

The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rain forest, famous for its rich biodiversity and importance in the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It also has an outsized influence on water cycles in ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Sluggish hurricanes are dumping more rain over the coastal ...

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Eastern Seaboard’s old-growth forests were cut down almost in their entirety. Today, trying to find a tree in this area that is more than two hundred ...

Timbers have been used to establish the definitive date for the construction of what is believed to be the oldest secular building in Southwick.

During her summer travels to her native Belgium, University of Arizona professor Valerie Trouet noticed something that turned casual curiosity into a major scientific discovery: When the sun hid ...