SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias ...

The General Sherman Tree – the world's largest tree by volume – stands 275 feet tall and measures more than 36 feet in diameter at its base. Visitors call the tree magnificent and humbling ...

The General Sherman tree has a trunk volume of a whopping 1,487 metres cubed, making it the world’s largest tree by volume. No one has ever climbed the 2,200-year-old tree that was before this year.

By volume, the General Sherman is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth and is estimated to be at least 2,200 years old. Experts say sequoia trees are very fire-resistant and have ...

In the Giant Forest, the Congress Trail, a paved 2.7-mile loop that begins near the General Sherman Tree, is a big hit ... hikers with views of one of the largest waterfalls in the park.