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 ...

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 ...

Firefighters in Central California have been working to protect a grove of giant sequoia trees from a massive wildfire. The Garnet Fire has been burning in the Sierra National Forest in eastern Fresno ...

Multiple forest fires are threatening groves of gigantic sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains that are home to some of the world’s largest trees. Flames are likely to reach the famous ...

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 ...

The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over 325 feet (99 meters) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has been burning since Saturday (Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management via AP) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oregon’s tallest tree, a 326-foot Douglas fir east of Coquille in Coos County, has been on fire for two days, officials said. The blaze has severely damaged the tree and caused a 50-foot-long section ...