Firefighters in Oregon are racing to save the Doerner Fir - one of the world's tallest and oldest trees - from a fire that has been burning since Saturday. The giant fir, more than 325ft (99m) tall ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

Portland, Ore. — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees, near the state's southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over ...

Five years ago, the Labor Day fires burned more than a million acres across Oregon and Washington. Since then, researchers at Portland State University have been tracking the post-fire changes to the ...

A study reveals carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires have surged by 60 per cent globally since 2001, and almost tripled in some of the most climate-sensitive northern hemisphere boreal forests ...

In coastal Oregon, the state's tallest fir tree is burning. Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common trees, but the tree that's ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, is special.

Early last September, firefighters were in the final stages of containing a 33,000-hectare wildfire complex in Alberta's Jasper National Park. Elsewhere, park workers were already replanting the first ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — 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. Taylor ...

Firefighters in California are scrambling to guard the state's beloved sequoia trees- the largest trees in the world that can live for thousands of years- as they are being threatened by a forest fire ...

FRESNO, Calif. – Wildland firefighters known as smokejumpers and crews on the ground are working to prevent further losses of ancient sequoia trees in California as the Garnet Fire continues to burn ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We met in a cafe that is a 1980s West Berlin reimagining of a Viennese coffee house, a frozen-in-time sea of wood veneer and brass fixtures. We were not here for the decor, though, but for a chat over ...