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They're finding out that Redwoods can move moisture out of the air and down into their trunks, possibly all the way into their root systems.

Fuel up in Sausalito, and then stop at Muir Woods National Monument to walk among thousands of giant, old-growth redwoods.

In moving to Hawaii, palm trees are more prevalent than redwoods or pine trees, but do not offer Mila the same connection to earth's void.

Taylor said. Circling its base, he saw dozens of sprouts, green life that might soon be coaxed into a new generation of mighty redwoods.

the redwoods seem to belong on those coastal hills, and the alligators seem to belong in those plains.

But he questioned whether the ancient redwoods were really the best type of tree to be cloning.

And he agreed that the redwoods were "carbon sequestration superstars, " growing fast and soaking up carbon as they do.

We live in a remote area up in the hills outside San Rafael, California, surrounded by towering redwoods .

It was strong and bitter and good, as I squatted on the riverbank, under the great redwoods all those years ago.

Milarch said coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process and by mating with other trees.

Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) can rise more than 35 storeys above the ground, reaching heights of up to 380 feet (116m).

There are two people climbing this tree, Gaya, which is thought to be one of the oldest Redwoods. There they are.

Mr Preston is clearly in love with his redwoods, even learning to "skywalk" so that he could climb some of them himself.

And then it bursts into a forest of Redwoods .

For those far removed from biology class, redwoods do reproduce sexually, albeit not very sexily.

Mr. Werner and other project propagators use various methods to clone two types of redwoods, coastal and giant sequoia.

The tallest trees have been measured at more than 370 feet, making coast redwoods the tallest living organisms in the world.

As all Californians know, and as most Ameriacans know, redwoods grow from saplings into the giants of the forest.

Only about 5 percent of the native old-growth redwoods remain, experts estimate.

The palm trees, surfers and redwoods are still there. So is Disneyland.

What can the Redwoods tell us about ourselves ?

Redwoods grow very slowly in their tops.

You can see the range of the Coast Redwoods. It's here, in red.

Redwoods are majestic trees that can grow to be more than 300 feet tall.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration .

Average mature redwoods stand between 200 to 240 feet tall and have diameters of 10 to 15 feet.

Just as we Hope that those saplings, those tiny sapling that we left in china, will grow one day into mighty redwoods

Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

And we can sleep where we reside with redwoods around us