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Smokejumpers are scaling Giant Sequoias to save McKinley Grove from the Garnet Fire, the first in 150 years to reach the area.
Firefighters are working to prevent further losses of ancient sequoia trees in California as the Garnet Fire continues to ...
On Sunday night and into Monday morning, when the north side of the 55,000-acre blaze in the mountains east of Fresno ...
The Garnet Fire has been burning the Sierra National Forest, and flames entered the McKinley Grove — home to hundreds of beloved sequoia trees — on Monday.
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National park tourism is the lifeblood for gateway towns like Moab, Utah, and Bar Harbor, Maine, which are home to vibrant ...
A solar storm occurs when the magnetic fields of the sun get twisted enough from its rotation that they snap. When this happens, they release massive amounts of energy into space. We are not in direct ...
A new study leveraging 20,000 tree-ring records and nearly 150 scientists' contributions from across the globe shows that, while droughts appear to have had a modest impact on tropical tree growth in ...
A 29-year-old Google software engineer was killed hiking in Yosemite National Park when a branch from a giant sequoia tree fell and hit her on the head. Angela Lin, an engineer at Salesforce and then ...
Tree-ring samples taken by Paulo Quadri, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz, were included in the study. (Photo by Luz A. de Wit) The top-line findings of a massive ...
Authorities are investigating the death of a 29-year-old woman who was fatally struck by a tree limb while hiking through a grove of sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park. Angela Lin was hit by a ...