The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

China is set to launch a nationwide tagging system to protect its old trees, including some estimated to be over 5,000 years ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

Methuselah, the world's oldest living tree. Xiaoling Sun It's not just the number of rings, either – their width tells us whether the tree was thriving in a particular year, or suffering due to ...

With climate change, wildfires, and human encroachment, our forests are in desperate need of guardians. What is being done to protect our woodlands?

Dendrochronology – the art of tree-ring counting – allows us to ... known as Methuselah is said to be the world’s oldest living thing at 4,856 years old. It’s not just the number of ...

Grand plans to restore, renovate and extend one of Geelong’s oldest original homes have been revealed as the historic ...

It is only 5 metres tall. Vaishali Shastri Updated : Feb 16, 2025, 09:53 AM IST A tree in Sweden is the world’s oldest living tree which has withstand every extreme weather condition for 9,000 years.