Scientists from an international project are racing to figure out what kills these anchors of their ecosystems—before it’s too late to save them Ellyn Lapointe - Freelance Writer When hunting for the ...
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Scientists find evidence Earth once had giant trees
Recent scientific discoveries suggest that Earth was once home to enormous trees, dwarfing today’s tallest redwoods. These ancient giants have left behind intriguing clues in the form of fossils and ...
Tropical forests like the Amazon lock away vast amounts of carbon, but that carbon is not equally distributed. The largest 1% of trees store half of the carbon in these forests, and release it back ...
The Giant Eucalyptus Specimen Archive was made possible in part by funding from the Jayne Wilson Bequest from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Daniel Bar-Ness runs Giant Tree Expeditions, a ...
The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a ...
A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire.Wildland firefighters with ...
Giant sequoia trees are thriving in the UK, growing at a similar rate to those in California, the trees’ native home. Reaching up to 90 metres in height, giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum), ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Converse Basin Grove is a prominent giant sequoia ...
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