Sidestepping a thorny, long-running controversy, California officials have proposed a new Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, legislation that could streamline permitting for new housing, renewable ...

Fast-growing and small-seeded tree species are dominating Brazilian forests in regions with high levels of deforestation and degradation, a new study shows. This has potential implications for the ...

At least 16,425 of the 47,282 tree species examined in a new IUCN report are at risk of extinction. Pixabay Trees are in trouble: More than one-third of known species around the globe are at risk of ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to list Joshua trees under the federal Endangered Species Act, leaving the fate of potential protection measures for the iconic spindly plant with newly ...

Phillips 66 is Closing its LA Refinery this Month. Neighbors Still Don’t Know if the Company Will Pay for the Cleanup. Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated ...

It started life near the end of the last Ice Age, nestled between two boulders on a rise in the Jurupa Hills of Riverside County — a shrubby oak tree estimated to be 13,000 years old, making it one of ...

Towering like a pagoda, with scale-like leaves and roots gripping rocks, this tree stands upright on steep cliffs. Thuja ...

Scientists have described three new frog species that dwell exclusively in the spiky leaves of pandan trees in Madagascar’s eastern rainforests. While the frogs are new to science, locals have ...

LANSING, Mich. – Two popular ornamental plants often used by landscapers may become illegal to buy, sell or plant in the ground in Michigan – in addition to four other known invasive species.