US firefighters optimistic over world's biggest treeA dead tree (L) stands alongside living trees as smoke rises during the KNP Complex fire in the Sequoia National Forest near Red Fir, California on September 17, 2021RED FIR (UNITED STATES) - Firefighters battling to protect the world's biggest tree from wildfires ravaging the parched United States said Friday they are optimistic it can be saved. Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as man-made climate change worsens California's fearsome fire season. The biggest of them all, the General Sherman stands 83 meters (275 feet) tall. "We have folks up in the Giant Forest protecting structures and preparing everything. But the larger, hotter blazes that are laying waste to the western United States are dangerous to them because they climb higher up the trunks and into the canopy.

Source: Bangkok Post September 18, 2021 01:41 UTC