According to the legend, all of them were able to take shelter under the massive tree. Believed to be around 2,500 years old, General Sherman is the mightiest giant sequoia still standing.

Famous sequoias like the General Sherman are protected by a long history of intentionally set fires, but other giant sequoias are in big trouble. With its crown on fire from the Windy Fire, a ...

Have you seen the biggest tree on Earth? This towering giant sequoia stands as a testament to the enduring power of nature.

The oldest living organisms on earth are North ... reduces the trees' loss of water through evaporation. Giant sequoia trees are conifers and grow only in a narrow 60-mile strip on the west ...

Tallest Tree in the World: The tallest tree in the world is called Hyperion. It is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and ...

making it one of the world’s oldest trees. And while Sequoia National Park was only established in 1890, the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton after the American Civil War ...

You know, you can replace a house, but you cannot replace a 2,000 to 3,000-year-old sequoia tree.” Residents were joined last week by a science class of 7th and 8th graders from Springville ...

A towering giant sequoia tree in Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood—that could have survived for over a century—may now be removed by the city. The massive tree, believed by activists to be ...

The past few years had been particularly rough for Visalia’s Sequoia Legacy Tree. A pattern of heavy winters and dry summers left the nearly 90-year-old tree susceptible to a particular type of ...