On Friday, I had a front-page article on the story of Prometheus, the 5,000-year-old bristlecone that was chopped down in 1964 in the name of science — and whose memory was resurrected by Los Angeles ...

Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada, a few turns off Route 50 — “the loneliest road in America” — a station wagon sat parked by the side of the highway. Before it lounged a young couple on ...

Science isn't always perfect, and decades ago, a graduate student's simple experiment proved that, though exactly why he did what he did remains a mystery.

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

TUCSON — In the basement of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, in a climate-controlled storage room that looks like a shrunken version of the one in the first Indiana Jones ...

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...