Inner Workings: How saving some of the Southeast’s oldest trees might help scientists monitor climate change [Environmental Sciences]

In the swampy floodplains of North Carolina's Black River stand ancient trees with a story to tell. Many of these bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) were well over a millennium old when Columbus discovered the Western Hemisphere. As it turns out, their locale has greatly promoted their longevity: by being relatively...

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