The Chaparral high school girls soccer team, which has won five state titles since 2017, is seeking to get back to its ...

The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...

Los Angeles is dominated by chaparral, a type of scrub that occurs in Mediterranean climates where there is dense, rocky soil ...

“There aren’t any.” Unlike mountains in parts of Northern California that are filled with pine and cedar trees, the hills around L.A. are covered in chaparral, an ecosystem made up of small ...

Unlike the forests or the prairie, fires in the chaparral are infrequent and intensely hot. While the Native Americans in California deliberately set fires to shrubland, they were not trying to ...

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...

Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ...

a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido on Jan. 23. Ecosystems are used to this seesaw effect, he said and fire is part of the Mediterranean climate of Southern ...

For years, some of us have fought for putting utility equipment underground.

The native landscape is chaparral, not forest—and clearing out the brush could make fires even worse. When the Palisades Fire ...

The increased frequency and size of conflagrations like those burning in LA threaten even species that evolved with wildfires ...