A 29-year-old Google software engineer was killed hiking in Yosemite National Park when a branch from a giant sequoia tree fell and hit her on the head. Angela Lin, an engineer at Salesforce and then ...

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, ...

Embers spat out by the Garnet Fire overnight Sunday ignited small fires that were still smoldering Wednesday in the high branches of several trees in a cherished grove of iconic giant sequoias in the ...