Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elm tree appears undamaged at Seriina Covarrubias' house in Altadena. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The oak trees saved ...

Erin Stone has been reporting on how communities and nature are recovering since the L.A. fires in January 2025. For more than a year, a group of researchers has collected data on more than 2,000 ...

Repeated bushfires in Victoria have done more than scorch woodland. They have destroyed old hollow-bearing trees that ...

More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study. "Our study found more cooling from planting in warm, wet regions, ...

A group of California’s beloved giant sequoia trees in an isolated grove in the central part of the state appear to have survived a major wildfire, although a few lingering embers were lodged in some ...

On Friday, July 11, a team of volunteers with local nonprofit Amigos de los Rios watered trees in Altadena as the summer sun beat down, working against time and Mother Nature to stave off another ...

FRESNO, Calif. – Wildland firefighters known as smokejumpers and crews on the ground are working to prevent further losses of ancient sequoia trees in California as the Garnet Fire continues to burn ...

The oak trees saved the blue house on East Calaveras Street. Seriina Covarrubias was sure of it. When she had returned after the Eaton fire, much of the Altadena neighborhood was in ruins. Homes and ...