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NATIONAL NEWS: – “Coin Crowding” has arrived — and it’s not just a Bitcoin trend. Crypto “mainstreamification” has reached a level that goes far beyond just Bitcoin. 14% of the US population now invests in cryptocurrency, and American crypto owners could double in 2021. This year, Bitcoin has nearly 2X’d in value – and altcoins have seen even bigger rallies: Ethereum is up ~400%, and Dogecoin has soared 13,000%. According to a Gemini survey: two-thirds of US adults who don’t own crypto are “crypto curious.” – Officials from California’s Sequoia National Park made a...

How a smoking giant sequoia has burned since 2020 2021-05-10 18:42:19 UTC On a long, recent trudge through forest burned in California's 2020 Castle Fire, a six-person survey crew peered at a curiosity in the distance. "We saw a little tiny smudge of white and wondered if it was snow on a distant slope," said Nate Stephenson, a forest scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't snow. It was smoke, coming from an iconic giant sequoia. "It would put out puffs of smoke," recalled Stephenson, of the April 22 sighting. The remote tree has smoldered (burning without...

An enormous Sequoia tree is still smoldering and emitting smoke months after California's devastating wildfires sankel@businessinsider.com (Sophia Ankel) © Tony Caprio/National Park Service via AP A smoldering tree in Sequoia National Park, California, on April 22, 2021. Tony Caprio/National Park Service via AP A tree in California's Sequoia National Park is still smoldering months after a disastrous wildfire. The tree is still burning from the Castle Fire which tore through the region in August 2020. Embers inside the tree still continued to smolder even through the winter...

Print this article A giant sequoia tree is still smoldering in California's Sequoia National Forest about 10 months after wildfires devastated the region, researchers discovered. A bolt of lightning struck deep within the national forest in August 2020, resulting in the Castle Fire that spread into areas of the Giant Sequoia National Monument, which is home to some trees that have stood for over 2,000 years, such as "General Sherman," the largest tree ever recorded. “The fact areas are still smoldering and smoking from the 2020 Castle Fire demonstrates how dry the park is,” Leif Mathiese...

Sequoia National Park The tree was discovered by scientists and fire crews examining the effects of the Castle Fire, which started from a lightning strike last August. It was located in an area of Sequoia National Park that burned along with more than 270 square miles of the surrounding forest in the Sierra Nevada. That fire The National Park Service said Wednesday morning that their finding shows just how dry the park is, and that there could be more similar discoveries in the coming months. Drought conditions are affecting the entire state, and much of the Sierra is seeing severe to extrem...