It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods. The living crown (this one atop the General Sherman, at center) was once a distant mystery.

The biggest of northern California’s giant redwood trees grow more than ... Logging was banned decades ago, but in recent years the redwoods have been faced with a new threat.

But giant redwoods scoff at serious pest problems and are indeed thriving in the UK, where warmer summers and wetter winters seem to be encouraging growth as the British climate gets closer to ...

On day 323 of the transect, in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, I dropped over a log 18 feet in diameter into an abyss of giant botanical pickup sticks, deadfall that had piled up amid the ...

A grove of some of the oldest redwoods growing in the UK has been saved. Seven giant sequoia trees in Ketton, Rutland, faced the axe in expansion plans at Grange Top Quarry, but a campaign by ...

it talks about the redwoods as guardians, and they watched out for us as a people. - [Steven] You come to this forest, you feel the calming presence coming from these ancient, giant trees ...

World-class climbers in 10 teams battled to be the fastest up the wall during a head-to-head 180m-high ascent.

A huge giant redwood tree in Exeter is to be chopped ... a City Council retirement housing complex. Redwoods can grow to up to 100m tall in their natural environment (more often around 50m in ...