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 ...

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.