Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then someone cut it down.

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in tree rings. By the time he left, a living organism that had survived nearly 5 ...

If you think you've ever messed up badly at your job, consider the case of Donald Rusk Currey. In 1964, the young graduate student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was studying the ...

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

Hidden high in California’s White Mountains, a solitary bristlecone pine has survived nearly 5,000 years. Guarded in secrecy, it holds climate secrets that stretch back to early civilisation.