What makes a tree the “biggest” in the world? Most people think height or trunk size—but in Kolkata, India, the Great Banyan ...

The colony extends over 106 acres (43 hectares) and weighs an estimated 6,500 tons (5,900 metric tons), which is equivalent to 40 blue whales or three times the world's largest single-stem tree ...

A group of scientists has found the world's tallest tree, a towering specimen the size of a 25-story building in the Amazon rainforest, it was reported this weekend. It took the researchers After ...

Spanning 2 million km 2 —an area the size of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined—the Cerrado is the largest savanna in the world and the most floristically tree-diverse ...