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

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

Several proud men standing by giant eucalyptus trees on East Lake Avenue in Watsonville, circa 1913. Eucalyptus trees were ...

Despite its introduction to the Indian subcontinent nearly 400 years ago, eucalyptus is often unfairly criticised. Some ...

Flooding from heavy rains forced the evacuation of residents of Meadowbrook Estates Mobile Home Park on Feb. 4 due to rising ...

Worsening fire conditions are the biggest threat. As large trees develop over centuries, large fissures form in their trunks.

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

But climate change bringing hotter, drier conditions means the trees – especially plantations of Eucalyptus globulus or Tasmanian blue gum grown for paper – are contributing to bushfires from ...

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

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, ...