These skyscraping superstars are the stalwart examples of their species Trees have many interesting features and uses, but it's perhaps their height that inspires the most reverie. Humans may have a ...

Ecologists discovered the tallest tree in the Amazon – and it was nearly 50 percent taller than the previous record holder.

Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors. California's Redwood National Park issued a statement last week that anyone who ...

One of the tallest trees in the world is on fire in the US state of Oregon. It is the Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas fir in Coos County that is over 99 meters tall and estimated to be over 450 years ...

PORTLAND — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas fir tree over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir ...

Firefighters are trying to save one of the world's tallest non-redwood trees which mysteriously caught fire at the weekend. The 325-foot (99 metres) Douglas Fir, known as the Doerner Fir, in Coos ...

In this photo provided by the Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management, the top of the Doerner Fir tree’s trunk smokes in Coos County, Oregon.Megan Harper / AP Authorities in Oregon are trying to ...

When Brian French learned last week that the Doerner Fir was burning, he could think of only two reasons why: Either lightning had struck the enormous conifer in coastal Oregon — or someone had set it ...