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 ...

The world’s largest tree is located in California’s Sequoia National Park which sees tourists from all over the world come and pay a visit to admire the famous sequoia tree. The General ...

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 ...

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

Mike Theune, fire information officer for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks told the Guardian that the inside of a tree can act like a wood-burning stove, feeding the fire enough oxygen for ...

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 ...

Late last month, during a rainstorm in the Sierra, a bolt of lightning struck the giant sequoia tree in front of the Yosemite Museum. Witnesses reported hearing a loud crack through Yosemite Village.

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 ...

“We were so excited,” Boufford recalled. “We thought we were going to get a sycamore tree. So we were even more excited to get a giant sequoia tree. We don’t really have any in New York Stat ...

One such delight is the forest of giant sequoia trees - a natural monument lesser known by most tourists including even many Cantabrians. The forest is the result of an experimental plantation ...