The mathematical approach If, like the majority of us, you don’t happen to have an increment borer lying around at home, you can calculate the age of a living tree using simple maths.

It’s best to get an expert to determine the age of a tree accurately, Apperson said. For free advice about trees, call the Virginia Department of Forestry in Williamsburg at (757) 564-9380.

Your eyes can fool you when you sit in a tree stand staring for hours at the same patch of woods. Shadows make fallen branches change their shapes. Squinting is often the only way to focus. But the… ...

The Maharashtra government’s ministry of environment and climate change on Thursday issued methodologies to determine the age of trees, so they can be given the heritage status. In the absence ...

PORTLAND, Maine - For the first time, scientists have figured out how to determine the age of a lobster — by counting its rings, like a tree.