Conservationists are turning dead urban trees into lumber
To stop California’s 6 million urban trees from knocking out power lines, crashing through houses, or lying across streets when they die, humans have to...
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Is L.A. too ugly to host the Olympics? You can be a part of saving it
If you overlook the polluted Seine, Paris looks so pretty on TV, so quintessentially Parisian, that it raises the question: How will Los Angeles compare...
Where can you see jacaranda trees in Los Angeles and Orange County?
What would Los Angeles be like without the nearly 30,000 jacaranda trees on city streets? It depends on who you ask. “The tree stands for...
Death Valley sets heat record. August temperatures may be higher too
Death Valley National Park set another record in July. The area dubbed the hottest place on Earth saw an average temperature in July of 108.5...
A list of California native plants that survived the Ice Age
At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Jessie George and other paleobotanists — the folks who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric...