Jacaranda trees are blooming early in Southern California this spring and we're diving into what's behind the ...

The Joshua tree has been featured in poetry and music and represented a burning bush in the latest episode of "Euphoria." A ...

They had trees with peaches but no place to send them. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved funds to subsidize tree removal.

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s. When I ...

The Huntington honors the national tree, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Ecosystems aren’t landscape paintings so much as mosaics, with different pieces that grow and change over time. In healthy forests, patches ...

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GETTING READY FOR THAT TO CHANGE. PEACEFUL SOUNDS THAT COME FROM THESE DENSE FORESTS, LANDSCAPES THAT TAKE UP A THIRD OF THE ENTIRE STATE. TREES ARE LONG LIVED SPECIES. MANY LIVE WELL OVER 100 YEARS, ...

To stand at the base of a giant sequoia tree is remarkable and humbling — an experience few get because of the trees’ remote location. Anyone lucky enough to be in the Bay Area is about a three-hour ...

A California-based renewable energy company plans to clear thousands of protected Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert to make way for a solar project that will generate electricity for nearly 180,000 ...

A recent federal survey found that California lost more than 36 million trees just in the last year. The large-scale die-off is alarming ecologists and policymakers. Many of California's trees, its ...