New research quantifies, for the first time, how much prescribed fire reduces mortality in the world's largest trees.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chad Hanson, an ecologist with the John Muir Project, walks across a fallen tree during a hike to ascertain the growth of giant ...

Extreme wildfires have killed up to 20% of the world's mature giant sequoias since 2015, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center (WERC).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant sequoias in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park, in the US state of California. The giant sequoias have thick, ...

Giant sequoias are survivors. They can live more than 3,000 years. But in a changing climate, the trees have become more vulnerable. NPR's Julie Depenbrock brings us this postcard from Sequoia ...

Flora and fauna have been an integral part of nature and its exisence. And every story of their survial in the wild is a ...

Five years ago, a tragic and depressing environmental story unfolded when thousands of giant sequoia trees, an iconic California species that tower 300 feet high and can live for 3,000 years, were ...

Chad Hanson, an ecologist with the John Muir Project, walks across a fallen tree during a hike to ascertain the growth of giant sequoias in the Redwood Mountain Grove in the Sequoia & Kings Canyon ...