The Giant Eucalyptus Specimen Archive was made possible in part by funding from the Jayne Wilson Bequest from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Daniel Bar-Ness runs Giant Tree Expeditions, a ...

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Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of ...

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 ...

Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...

In late September and early October 2024, a black-and-white photograph circulated on social media purportedly showing the "last giant silicon tree" in 1899. The image's caption referenced a theory ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Environmentalists sued the federal government Thursday over plans to log Giant Sequoia National Monument, plans they say would violate the presidential proclamation creating the ...

South America’s tallest tree, a 400-year-old red angelim in the northern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is the star of a newly created conservation area called the Giant Trees of the Amazon State Park.

Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes. Tasmania has ...