How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

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

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY – A one-day project to perform repairs to power poles will result in a full closure of State Route 192 ...

From wafting tar pits and smells of the beach to native plants and a chocolate factory, our readers smelled Los Angeles and ...

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

L.A. must balance fire resilience with ecological preservation by gradually replacing flammable non-native plants like eucalyptus and palm trees with native and fire-resistant species while rethinking ...

Oakland Fire Lt. Matt Amormino rode shotgun in his fire engine, past the burned-out vehicles and eucalyptus-studded East Bay hills that make Fire Station 21’s expansive coverage area a year-round ...

Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have ... overhaul of the environment look like? Fragrant eucalyptus trees, indigenous to Australia, sway in ...

Southern California is dominated by shrublands ... It’s like throwing tissue paper onto a fire.” Eucalyptus trees, introduced to California in the mid-19th century from Australia, add another ...

Eucalyptus, a fast-growing genus of more than 660 types of shrubs and trees, is native to Australia, primarily the southern and western regions. Commonly known as gum trees or mountain ash ...

Wallace Cleaves, president of the conservancy’s board, credits traditional stewardship practices — including the removal of 97 fire-prone eucalyptus trees — with reducing the wildfire’s ...

As such, France became a key distribution point for eucalyptus seeds, which quickly spread and grew in Africa, southern Europe, and the United States. The eucalyptus found its way to California ...