News Headline
What's the oldest tree on Earth—and will it survive climate change?
Source
National Geographic
Publication Date
2022-05-31
Thousands of feet above the Nevada desert, in a part of Great Basin National Park that tourists rarely see, park ecologist Gretchen Baker neared the top of Mount Washington and raised her binoculars. There just below, sprouting directly from the limestone, grew some of the oldest living things on Earth.