Redwood City Plane Crash Kills 3: Video of Plane in Water

In Redwood City a Plane Crashed Into a Lagoon in Redwood Shores: Three People Have Been Confirmed Dead Among the dead is 91-year-old Steel executive Robert Borrmann, along with his pilot and the pilot's girlfriend as reported by The San Francisco Chronicle. All three bodies...

29 Fascinating Facts About Plants From Around The World

The largest plants in the world are the giant redwood trees of North America. Sequoias can grow up to 107 m (350 ft) or more in height and may be up to 7.5 m (26 ft) across. They can weight more than nine times as much as a blue whale, the heaviest animal that has ever...

Calif. redwood confirmed as tallest tree (AP)

" REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Researchers have confirmed that a redwood named Hyperion in a remote Northern California forest is the world's tallest tree. Steve Sillett, a forestry professor at Humboldt State University, recently climbed Hyperion and measured it at 379.1...

Calif. redwood may be tallest live thing (AP)

" 2 hours, 32 minutes ago REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - A redwood in a remote Northern California coastal forest has been tentatively measured as the world's tallest living thing. The tree called Hyperion stands at 378.1 feet, eight feet taller than the previous record...

Singer Joan Baez takes up residence in L.A. tree

"Reuters - Folk singer Joan Baez and a woman who once spent two years perched atop a giant California redwood took up residence on Wednesday in a tree in a Los Angeles community garden that is threatened with demolition."