Using samples from around Southeast Asia, Buckley and his colleagues saw this pattern in tree rings from recent years, when he could corroborate the rings with other historical climate information.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Miss Sullivan climbed with me. It was so cool up in the tree we decided to have lunch there.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate, sitting on their nest in a nearby tree.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

With the furs on his back, and his gun in his arms, he stepped out on the fallen tree.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

One of the rarest species of mangrove tree grows in just a few places in East Asia and India.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The American food company Mars took the lead in paying for mapping the genes of the Forastero cocoa tree.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The study found that climate conditions alone could not explain the amount of tree cover in different areas.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Some areas of Joshua Tree National Park in California, for example, can no longer support the trees that the park is named for.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Another climber,John Lang, suggested Bachar free-solo an area called Double Cross, in Joshua Tree National Park,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

He was safe. He sat under the tree and thought of the old men in Fairbanks.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Maine,in the nation's northeast, is "The Pine Tree State" because it is covered in evergreen woods.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

She put the basket of babies on a blanket in the shade of a chestnut tree.

VOA: special.2009.02.28