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A Shannon County Deputy saves a Birch Tree man from his burning home. The Shannon County Sheriff’s Department and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services responded to the home after a ...

The Los Angeles woman is painting watercolour images for people — free of charge — of their homes that were destroyed in the recent fires. And she's not alone. "It's immortalizing something ...

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Blue rings found in the stems of trees and bushes in Norway point to a historic cold period in the late 1800s, but the exact cause of this climatic event remains unclear, scientists say.

POZNAŃ, Poland — In the Arctic’s harsh borderlands, where trees wage a constant battle for survival, an international research team has discovered that extreme cold leaves lasting fingerprints in wood ...

Taken from a tree in Norway, this stained tree sample shows a blue ring from 1902. (Credit: Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz) Human skin isn't the only thing that can change color after facing the ...

These eruptions likely cast a volcanic winter over the northern hemisphere, impacting the trees at Mount Iškoras in Norway, where the study was conducted. "Blue rings look like unfinished growth ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...