A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set ...

ALDER CREEK GROVE — Ancient giant sequoia trees grow here, and on Monday morning, ancient words came forth in song, acknowledging the spirits of the land and asking for healing. The fragrance of ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Millions of people travel to California’s redwood forests every year to marvel at the few remaining stands of old-growth trees. Sequoia sempervirens, or the ...

Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors. California's Redwood National Park issued a statement last week that anyone who ...

Jian-Wei Zhang, Ashalata D'Rozario, Jonathan M. Adams, Ya Li, Xiao-Qing Liang, Frédéric M. Jacques, Tao Su and Zhe-Kun Zhou • Premise of the study: The paleogeographical origin of the relict North ...

The National Park Service is trying to preserve the world’s tallest tree by banning hikes to it. But this approach will never completely work since the location of the 380-foot redwood is an open ...

North America’s most iconic trees, the redwoods (a generic term that includes redwoods and sequoias, with the species California redwood specifically referring to Sequoia sempervirens) are in imminent ...

Yes, you can grow redwood and sequoia trees in Southern California. Rick Akers, who lives in Long Beach, has mature specimens that prove the point. “I planted both from seedlings I procured at ...