The giant redwood trees in California are enjoying an extraordinary growth spurt due to global warming, as per recently-published findings of a study conducted by the Save the Redwoods League and a team of researchers.

The team of researchers climbed and poked 137 coast redwoods and sequoias on sixteen research plots across the giant trees' geographic range over the past four-years. They found that the trees produced more wood over the last century than they have produced during any other history.

Titled the Redwoods & Climate Change Initiative, the $3 million research, was the biggest research project ever carried out on the beloved redwood trees.

The researchers attributed redwoods trees' unprecedented growth to changing environmental conditions.

Save the Redwoods League's science director Emily Burns said, "We have found ancient forests where climate conditions are accelerating growth and we predict these places will stay vibrant habitat refuges for other plants and animals in the foreseeable future."

Ancient redwood forests are capable of storing up to three times more carbon dioxide above ground than any other existing forest.

During the research, researchers also found the oldest coast redwood tree, which according to them, is 2,520 years old.