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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People use a hose to extinguish a palm tree during the Sunset fire on Vista Street in Hollywood on Jan. 8. (Jason Armond / Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philippe Gerber / Getty Images Trees are made of wood, so it’s safe to assume that, to some extent, they are flammable—but some ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Trees are made of wood, so it’s safe to assume that, to some extent, they are flammable—but some pose more of a fire safety issue than others. Fast-growing junipers and eucalyptus, for example, as ...