The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area. Related Articles ...

When people picture paradise, they often conjure up an idyllic island with palm fronds waving in the wind. But paradise is in imminent danger. More than half the world’s palm species may soon face ...

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Elegance is a quality that may not be essential to beauty, and yet when elegance is present, beauty is definitely there, too. It is thus appropriate, I suppose, that Hollywood — where elegance is ...

Large-scale monoculture plantations have devastated tropical forests worldwide, but a recent study finds that creating islands of native trees can be a way to restore biodiversity on degraded lands.

Few birds have nesting requirements as finicky as Australia's largest parrot, the palm cockatoo, which is facing its own ...

There's not a whole lot of places with a demographic that can enjoy a daylong picnic in the sun. On a weekday. In February. Palm Beach is one of them. The inaugural Palm Beach Picnic, a benefit for ...