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.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philippe Gerber / Getty Images Trees are made of wood, so it’s safe to assume that, to some extent, they are flammable—but some ...

At some point in the near future, a company called ArborGen envisions an American south blanketed with eucalyptus trees genetically engineered to survive the cold winter. To feed the paper and pulp ...

“After 4th day of blazes, Santa Anas may yield to rain” (Jan. 23): Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its ...

Two decades after the Oakland Hills firestorm, neighbors are still battling over the ‘flammable’ forest. Walking along the trails near Claremont Canyon Road in Oakland, California, the air smells ...

ALBANY — As California braces for a fourth year of drought, former East Bay Regional Park District official Jerry Kent is not the only one worried about the flammable eucalyptus trees that populate ...

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 ...