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 nonnative, ...

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, ...

“After 4th day of blazes, Santa Anas may yield to rain” (Jan. 23): Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its ...

Two decades after the Oakland Hills firestorm, neighbors are still battling over the ‘flammable’ forest. Walking along the trails near Claremont Canyon Road in Oakland, California, the air smells ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Federal plans for wildfire protection in California's East Bay Hills unwisely fail to deal with eucalyptus trees - explosively flammable, non-native hazards that should be ...

At some point in the near future, a company called ArborGen envisions an American south blanketed with eucalyptus trees genetically engineered to survive the cold winter. To feed the paper and pulp ...

The wildfires that are now threatening Sydney and other parts of New South Wales, Australia, are burning out of control, despite intensive firefighting efforts. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed ...

Robert Sieben and Michelle Miller strongly disagree about whether herbicides should be used on public property -- and they each can point to the same steep North Oakland hillside to prove their point: ...

More than a century ago, entrepreneur Anthony Chabot cultivated a eucalyptus grove in the Oakland hills, with the lumber transported across Skyline Boulevard to the Port of Oakland for homebuilding ...

People use a hose to extinguish a palm tree during the Sunset fire on Vista Street in Hollywood on Jan. 8. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent ...