Sequoia trees are undoubtedly one of the most astounding living organisms on our planet. In the days of the Jurassic period, ...

The specimen has been in the Museum since 1893, after the tree was felled in California. After more than a century on public display as part of the Museum's botany collections, it needed cleaning and ...

leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday. Fires in Sequoia National Park and surrounding Sequoia ...

The Windy Fire has burned through the Peyrone and Red Hill groves ... however low-intensity fires can be beneficial to giant sequoia trees. A damage assessment will be done in these groves ...

With its distinctive red-brown bark - it's one of the largest ... to go to space but this motivates it even more.” Giant sequoia trees can grow up to 90 metres high - and are native to ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

Now the fires in the area are threatening the state's sequoia trees Firefighters are wrapping fire-resistant blankets around ancient trees as blazes tear through California's world-famous Sequoia ...

Nearly 500 saplings of the world's largest tree, the giant sequoia, have been planted in Brecon. The team behind the One Life One Tree project said it could be the largest plantation of its type ...