Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have been encouraged, for years, to rip out water-guzzling lawns. They have also been urged to forgo nonnative, ...

Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, southern Californians have been encouraged for years to rip out water-guzzling lawns. They have also been urged to forgo non-native, ...

Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with ...

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides ...

Portuguese eucalyptus forests are helping to replace plastics, but as the country’s climate warms up, this highly flammable tree is a growing threat to people and biodiversity. Portuguese ...

Cruel trolls have circulated an old post blaming California’s latest bushfires on eucalyptus trees. Experts have hosed down claims the highly-flammable tree is responsible for the latest disaster.

People use a hose to extinguish a palm tree during the Sunset fire on Vista Street in Hollywood on Jan. 8. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) ...

They have also been urged to forgo nonnative, aggressively growing, highly flammable plants that take over space from native species, particularly after fires. But no expert believes even a Los ...

L.A. must balance fire resilience with ecological preservation by gradually replacing flammable non-native plants like ...