Redwood Tree

Researchers were curious about how well these giants adjusted to their new home. They created a map of nearly 5,000 redwoods in the UK and studied trees at three locations.

The redwood appears like a phantom: as if from thin air. What looked like a trick of the light a moment ago materializes into a trunk, branches, needles - a tree, roughly the height of a man, with delicate leaves the color of bone. It is an albino redwood, the "ghost" of California's coastal forests.

Earth is home to just over 3 trillion trees - the redwoods of California, the olive trees of Tunisia, the cherry trees of Japan, the eucalyptus of Australia and so many more - but they are being lost at an alarming rate because of human activities.

A new study to determine the age of iconic old-growth redwoods in California's Muir Woods has revealed that one of the tallest and most famous trees in the forest is much younger than many assumed given its massive size, scientists said on Tuesday.

Researchers were curious about how well these giants adjusted to their new home. They created a map of nearly 5,000 redwoods in the UK and studied trees at three locations.

The redwood appears like a phantom: as if from thin air. What looked like a trick of the light a moment ago materializes into a trunk, branches, needles - a tree, roughly the height of a man, with delicate leaves the color of bone. It is an albino redwood, the "ghost" of California's coastal forests.

Earth is home to just over 3 trillion trees - the redwoods of California, the olive trees of Tunisia, the cherry trees of Japan, the eucalyptus of Australia and so many more - but they are being lost at an alarming rate because of human activities.

A new study to determine the age of iconic old-growth redwoods in California's Muir Woods has revealed that one of the tallest and most famous trees in the forest is much younger than many assumed given its massive size, scientists said on Tuesday.