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 ...

Trimming a 147-foot redwood in northern England to win a Guinness World Record needed a cherry picker, 1,320 multicolored bulbs and precautions for high winds.

Sometimes even the largest natural wonders can remain hidden from human view for centuries. The Amazon is a dense place, full of life with new species of flora and fauna being discovered every other ...

The world's tallest glass holiday tree returns to Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, near Lake Geneva, this season. This year it'll be even taller, and you can help build it! The World’s Tallest ...

A giant white pine shoots up from within this old-growth forest in Ontario. Here’s where to find it – and just how tall it is ...

Turns out the trees of Maui are taller than previously thought. In fact, a new effort to map the height of the island’s forests reveals that a stretch of midlevel trees, covering about 1,000 acres in ...

Amy Maetzold is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She started her journalism career in Wisconsin where she was a producer at NBC15 and Spectrum News 1. Before coming to KCAL, Amy covered news in ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

This year was to be the “Year of the Tallest Christmas Tree in our Family’s History.” Why did I want a tall tree? I don’t know. Because we have high ceilings? Because a taller tree brings greater joy?