The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra. But it’s a fire tree too. Thick bark protects it from burning in lightning-caused fires, which open cones ...

How do you conserve an ancient wedge of giant tree? With solvent, buckets of conservation-grade resin and a lot ... Chelsea's team looked closely at the sequoia to monitor and document any changes to ...

Each giant sequoia can also absorb about 187 pounds of carbon dioxide per year, reducing the amount of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. All this is made possible by the fact that sequoias ...

His team has been monitoring the giant sequoia reproduction in the Redwood ... "Sequoias have evolved to only really release their seeds from the cones when a fire burns, and not just when any ...

The heat of forest fires causes the small cones to release even smaller seeds ... Last year, the Castle Fire destroyed at least 10% — and possibly as much as 14% — of the giant sequoias in the Sierra ...

Melissa Breyer is Treehugger’s former senior editorial director. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine, and ...

DETROIT – A giant sequoia forest could soon be growing in a Detroit neighborhood. Arboretum Detroit, which owns and manages a system of parks in the Poletown East neighborhood, has plans to ...

In Sequoia National Park this question of whether ... with increasing wildfires threatening giant sequoias, known as some of the world's oldest trees, should we intervene or leave the wilderness ...

According to rangers, Sequoia was the first national park formed to protect a living organism, Sequoiadendron giganteum, also known as the Giant Sequoia. Closures due to the Coffee Pot Fire to ...

Sequoia is unlike any major macOS update in recent memory. Annual OS releases usually tell two stories. The first is the tale of that release, which consists of a combination of design, system, and ...