NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Mother Nature is cranking up the thermostat this week as areas of the country are expecting to see record heat. The upper-air pattern causing the temperatures to soar is what ...

The activity below allows you to build a tree-ring chronology. Each horizontal bar represents the tree-ring pattern for one tree. By looking for matches in the patterns, you should be able to build an ...

Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...

Earthquake effects are often thought of in terms of the human impact, be that fatalities or destruction to homes and infrastructure. However, the environmental toll can also be damaging, and new ...