California is home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia. Standing under these massive organisms, you can’t help but be filled with wonder at how something can be so old and so enormous, ...

Firefighters in Central California have been working to protect a grove of giant sequoia trees from a massive wildfire.

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 ...

FRESNO, California (AP) – In a story Dec. 3 about the world’s second largest tree, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the diameter of The President sequoia tree is 93 feet. That is the ...

The sequoia is the world’s largest tree by volume and closely related to the ... 100-acre McKinley Grove sometime Sunday night or Monday morning, he said. The giant trees rely on low-intensity fire to ...

Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth's largest trees, officials said ...

A fire burning in Fresno County has reached the McKinley grove of giant sequoias. Several trees are in flames and specially ...