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A look inside a rare, 400-year-old tree found in the Lorneville area of Saint John offers a microscopic glimpse at the history and data that can be pulled from old growth trees as the supply of ...
A tree in downtown Regina, believed to be one of the oldest trees in the city, will be taken down early Sunday morning. It is estimated to be at least 123 years old and could have been planted as ...
After getting samples of an old tree from a resident of the Lorneville area of Saint John, Mount Allison University lecturer Ben Phillips brings us inside his lab, where he reveals the tree’s ...
Toronto City Council has approved a scheme to preserve a giant red oak tree that could be as old as 350 years where it sits in the yard of a North York bungalow. The vote Nov. 4 came nearly six months ...
Workers are preparing to take down the famed hollow tree in Stanley Park, but the 800-year-old icon is not going down without more controversy. The UBC Botanical Garden has offered to move the ...
More Ben Phillips, environmental lecturer at Mount Allison University, began a process known as dendochronology on the sample — a study that measures the age of trees by counting small lines otherwise ...