Scientists from an international project are racing to figure out what kills these anchors of their ecosystems—before it’s too late to save them Ellyn Lapointe | Freelance Writer When hunting for the ...

Tropical forests like the Amazon lock away vast amounts of carbon, but that carbon is not equally distributed. The largest 1% of trees store half of the carbon in these forests, and release it back ...

On a late autumn day, a team of forestry workers spreads out among the burned trunks of giant sequoia trees. The 1,000-year-old trees in the grove are dead but still standing, killed in an extreme ...

A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire.Wildland firefighters with ...

The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a ...

The Garnet fire burned into the McKinley grove of giant sequoia trees by Monday morning. Fire officials say several trees are burning and specially trained firefighters are on the way. A blaze raging ...

Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the trees’ native home. Reaching up to 90 metres in height, giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum), ...