TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most ...

As trees grow larger, their heartwood proportion increases and eventually accounts for most of the biomass. Heartwood decay ...

One of the most unique features of sequoia trees is that they retain their seeds in closed cones for as long as 2 decades. During a wildfire, the hot air dries out the older cones and they crack open.

The 16%—$465 million—cut in its current $2.85 billion fund for deployment across seed, venture and growth stages at a time when most global investors are bullish on India also took observers ...

Those seeds eventually boarded the Orion spacecraft, though, and headed for the stars, spending November through December of 2022 traveling 270,000 miles to the moon and on into deep space.

Rome Free Academy science teacher Elaine Rotenberry, left, and reading teacher Melinda Boufford planted Arti, a giant sequoia sapling in May. As a seed, Arti traveled into space on NASA's Artemis ...

Students at Santiago STEAM Magnet Elementary School participate at a ceremony to plant a small Giant Sequoia tree from NASA’s Artemis I Mission’s tree seeds that traveled around the moon twice ...

Giant sequoia seedlings are watched over by an older sequoia at the Arboretum Detroit tree nursery. These 100 seedlings were planted during spring 2024. They are expected to be part of a giant ...

That tree is at Lake Bluff Farms in Manistee County. On the same property, there are 15 giant sequoia seedlings from Archangel Ancient Tree Farm.

Another of the trees at Wakehurst’s Horsebridge Wood site was also grown from seeds from the second largest tree in the world, General Grant, which is over 80m tall and stands in California.

Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate.

Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate.