and there’s growing evidence that the right kind of greenery serves as a protective barrier. Having healthy, irrigated California live oak and sycamore trees on your property can save your house ...

The Woodland Trust explains: “When tree roots grow into clay soil and ... you may want to stick with low water trees as a precaution.” The RHS lists oak trees, particularly English oaks ...

There are plenty of examples these days of public buildings where architects have incorporated living trees into the plan. It ...

More architects are using biophilic design — the idea of integrating nature into design to enhance our connection to nature.

From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow. Or put another way, from a handful of script pages, gargantuan multimedia ...

Removing invasive eucalyptus trees from Anthony Chabot Regional Park could help mitigate wildfire risk where wildland-urban ...

"The oak is the queen of her domain ... they also store it for longer than trees exposed to lower levels of CO2, by growing extra bark. When exposed to the volume of CO2 that scientists estimate ...

If your flower beds need a little something extra to fill them in, check out these ground covers that can make great ...

The scope of disasters also is growing ... in California and author of Burn Scars, published in September. An unusually extreme outbreak of Santa Ana winds, months of drought, low humidity and ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into ... like the mountains and old oak trees, his niece Bianka Altmetz said.