Bright sparks reveal invisible tree rings

Calcium markers could aid climate studies in the tropics.

As every child knows, you can tell how old a tree is simply by counting its rings, which reflect the changing seasons. Now researchers have worked out a simple way to do the same for trees from the tropics, where there are no summers and winters to mark the passage of time.

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Bright sparks reveal invisible tree rings

Calcium markers could aid climate studies in the tropics.

As every child knows, you can tell how old a tree is simply by counting its rings, which reflect the changing seasons. Now researchers have worked out a simple way to do the same for trees from the tropics, where there are no summers and winters to mark the passage of time.

Read the story here.

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