Where the oldest trees grow 🌲🌳 NASA and the U.S. Forest Service teamed up to create the first-ever inventory of mature and old-growth forests in the United States. They used observations from boots-on-the-ground research as well as NASA’s GEDI instrument, which takes three-dimensional measurements of the planet’s forests and fields from its perch on the International Space Station. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ok6LfL | NASA Earth

The oldest tree in the world is over 5000 years old! And it's not the only organism that can live an extremely long life. Other examples are tubeworms, Greenland sharks and Welwitschia plants. They seem to have this main thing in common: living in extreme circumstances! | MinuteEarth