In a nutshell Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth ...

"We measured the 14C levels in the pine sample at three different ... may have caused the unusual tree ring data." Although the poor understanding of the mechanisms behind unusual solar activity ...

A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm ...

14C-Ex model to assess the solar particle storm intensity under glacial conditions. The model was successfully validated using data in tree rings from the AD 775 event and applied to the late Ice ...

Their research has been published in the journal Nature Communications. Tree-ring chronologies and the 14 C method have their limits Dendrochronology uses characteristic patterns of broad and ...

Those are years under your fingers. Every spring in much of the world, the cells under a tree’s bark wake up and start to divide. This forms a visible ring marking each year of the organism’s ...

Researchers rely on tree rings, glaciers, and fossil records to put our current climate in context. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct ...