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 ...

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, ...

If you live in a wildfire area, carefully consider the trees you plant. Some species may be gorgeous, but they can also fan the flames of a fire outbreak.

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 ...

Thursday marks 13 years since a massive fire that burned for more than 26 hours damaged Rumpke’s Cincinnati Recycling facility.Since that incident, Rumpke has issued more reminders to customers about ...

After the Los Angeles fires, California is on the brink of adopting the toughest rules in the country about flammable vegetation. State officials are considering banning almost all vegetation within ...

Dozens of wildfires have ripped through Brooklyn’s largest park reducing more than 50 acres to ash over the last six months — an alarming trend environmentalists hope to squash by packing the ...

Deadly wildfires on the edge of Los Angeles are the result of two years of wet conditions, a year of drought and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, University of Virginia experts said. Several fires ...