Within California's White Mountains, one of North America's largest and tallest desert mountain ranges, lies the Inyo National Forest near the California-Nevada border. Moving farther within the Inyo ...

Discover the world's most ancient trees, some surviving millennia as single individuals and others through regenerative root systems. These iconic beings have witnessed civilizations rise and fall, ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have weathered through tons of challenges. Scientists have dated them, and locals ...

The world’s oldest cypress trees and the history of North Carolina’s first life-saving stations. UNC Wilmington students paddle deep into the Black River, where some of the world’s oldest living ...

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