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Mysterious Blue Tree Rings Can Reveal History's Cruelest Summers


A simple blue stain could force trees into giving up their memories of cold summers and volcanic winters, a recent study reveals, giving researchers a new way to precisely reconstruct ancient climates using the antomy of timber.

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