Nature's Spark for Growth Fire is a key player in the lifecycle of many plants, particularly in fire-prone areas like California. Certain species, such as some pines and chaparral shrubs, have evolved ...

Photo courtesy of California Bureau of Land Management/Flickr After several wet winters in a row followed by springs of ...

When Raia Olsen, owner of Oahu Grazers, pulls up to the solar farm in Mililani and lets her flock of sheep out of the trailer ...

T he Palisades Fire burned its way through Jennifer Champion’s life. It started in the hills where her family liked to hike ...

The fact that apples grown from seedling trees are extremely tart and basically inedible — as opposed to cloned or grafted ...

Like the Palisades fire, the Palos Verdes landslide is erasing an entire place — including a home of Joan Didion, who wrote ...

Visit the 15-acre grounds at the former estate of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, including nine acres of desert ...

The UTSA community is mourning the loss of Harry the Cat, a beloved stray cat that has been missing since December.

NOAA satellites paired with AI data analysis also generate alerts but over a wider area. They can detect heat signatures, map fire perimeters and burned areas, and track smoke and pollutants to assess ...

Ensure that you have inline drip irrigation installed in beds to help counter dry conditions, and get back to watering fruit trees ...

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, ...