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 ...

From city plazas to small town squares, these towering Christmas trees draw crowds each winter with impressive scale, ...

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 ...

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The Doerner Fir tree, one of the world’s tallest, caught fire and has sustained damage that could lower its global ranking. The fire has not yet spread to the surrounding coastal Oregon wilderness but ...

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 ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...