Sierra Nevada

The snowpack covering California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years, raising hopes that the drought-stricken state could soon see relief in the spring when the snow melts and begins to refill parched reservoirs.

The fire is a threat to more than 500 mature sequoias in the park's Mariposa Grove and the nearby community of Wawona, which has been evacuated.

Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer's Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings, state fire officials said on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.

The lightning-caused KNP Complex that erupted on Sept. 9 has burned into 15 giant sequoia groves in the park

Four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park, authorities said.

Flames on Sunday reached a grove of sequoia trees in California as firefighters battled to keep fire from driving further into another grove, where the base of the world’s largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil.

A weather system affecting northwest California was expected to bring dry lightning and blustery winds through early Friday, September 10, 2021, unleashing a risk of new wildfires as thousands of firefighters have been making headway against existing blazes.

California's largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of homes.

A wind-driven wildfire tore through a Northern California mountain town, leaving much of the downtown in ashes as crews braced for another explosive run of flames in the midst of dangerous weather.

Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in.

California firefighters battled fast-growing forest fires threatening giant sequoias and small communities in the Sierra Nevada on Monday, September 27, 2021, and worked to fully surround a suspected arson wildfire that destroyed homes last week.