And the tree ring building is round, to architecturally represent a tree. It felt like a perfect merging of architecture, shape, sound, data, wood material and science.

In September, the base of General Sherman, the largest tree in the world by volume at 275 feet tall and over 36 feet wide, and others at Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest were wrapped in ...

Using tree rings as proxies for snowpack and summer soil moisture, scientists have determined that this 20-plus-year period is the driest in southwestern North America since AD 800.

The world-famous museum is now in the possession of an ancient slab of a sequoia tree. After carefully counting each ring of the tree, paleobotanist Scott Wing determined that the tree lived for ...

This cross section of a sequoia in Yosemite National Park in California has markers identifying the dates of tree rings. ... Giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, ≥3,266 years.

Giant Sequoia is the world's largest tree in terms of total volume. They grow to an average height of 50-85 m (150-280 ft) and 5-7 m (16-23 ft) in diameter. Record trees have been reported to be ...

The rings of the Legacy Tree giant sequoia tree are visible on a trunk section of the tree after it was removed in downtown Visalia on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.

The rings of the Legacy Tree giant sequoia tree are visible on a trunk section of the tree after it was removed in downtown Visalia on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. The 93-year-old tree was cut down ...

Known as the General Sherman tree, the tree was first estimated at nearly 6, 000 years years old, while more recent estimates in the 1960s cut its age to 3, 500 years and even to 2,500 years.

If you cut down a tree, you can read in the wood an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative. In a basement in Tucson, Ariz., slices of tree trunks stand on shelves ...