Once thought to be basically immortal, sequoias are now dying in droves

[Botany]

12. A little knowledge

Both the Sequoia and much more the coastal redwoods have flat needles that gather water from
the clouds/fogs that for 1000s of years have been part of the environment but with climate change
those clouds and fogs are not as common and the trees don't get the moisture the need to
thrive. Once a tree is no longer thriving then it is open to more disease, insect attacks and fire
damage and those trees have thousands of years of evolution as to having fire as part of their ecology
but not under the water stress conditions that are happening now.