Extreme wildfires have killed up to 20% of the world's mature giant sequoias since 2015, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center (WERC).

Giant sequoias are survivors. They can live more than 3,000 years. But in a changing climate, the trees have become more vulnerable. NPR's Julie Depenbrock brings us this postcard from Sequoia ...

For those of us who have never seen a giant sequoia or redwood in person, walking up this huge tree is a bit of a shock. Even ...

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Giant sequoia groves in California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks that were extensively burned in the megafires of 2020 and 2021 produced numbers of seedlings that were so “drastically low” ...

Most people know Yellowstone was the first national park. Ask what the second was and you may get shrugs, but it was Sequoia National Park, and it’s celebrating its 135th year on Sept. 25. Here’s a ...

SACRAMENTO — Wildfires were once seen as the downfall of the treasured giant sequoia trees in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, but a team of researchers with the John Muir Project released a ...