A 29-year-old Google software engineer was killed hiking in Yosemite National Park when a branch from a giant sequoia tree ...

But in a freak accident July 19 walking just a few steps ahead of the others on a mostly paved old stagecoach road, Angela ...

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees 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.

A dead giant sequoia tree, center, likely to have been more than 1,000 years old, still stands among thousands of dead trees in a closed section of the Redwood Mountain Grove area of Kings Canyon ...

It would take decades for the reality of California's giant sequoias to penetrate public skepticism and make way for the preservation of the largest trees on earth. But in 1890 came a breakthrough.

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 ...

Sequoia National Park was created in 1890 to protect the mammoth trees for the public. Along with Kings Canyon National Park, the two parks are home to about 40% of all sequoias.