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The National Science Foundation has funded a study to determine past climates by studying tree rings. Environmental students from Arizona studied bristlecone pine trees to determine aspects about the Earth’s climates during the Paleo age. The study of tree growth rings to understand Earth’s past climate is called dendrochronology. As each year passes, trees add growth rings around their trunks. These dendrochronologists study these rings to gain all sorts of information not only about...

Researchers with the University of Arizona (UA's) have discovered evidence of a formerly unknown, decades-long drought that occurred in the southwestern United States in the second century, the school announced in a November 3 press release. The study, which was the work of geoscientists Cody Routson, Connie Woodhouse and Jonathan Overpeck of the university's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, involved a study of the southern San Juan Mountains in Colorado. The region is said to be a...