Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.

What else is on CARB’s priority list for this year ... The Moss Landing battery plant could have been designed differently to avoid bursting into flames. CALIFORNIA POLICY IS ALWAYS CHANGING ...

As always at the top of the list is wondering what ... I’m told the chaparral undergoes serious stress. Prolong that stress and the plants may go into a type of hibernation of sorts or die ...

California chaparral and coastal sage scrub tend to ... calling it a particularly fire-resistant plant. "The building burned around it, and yet this shrub remains standing so tall it could hold ...

As 2025 began, the world watched the devastating fires in southern California. The fires spread rapidly over chaparral-covered hillsides under extremely dry conditions and Santa Ana winds. Thousands ...

The hills above Los Angeles are covered with dense, dark green brush, a unique plant community known as chaparral. In the wake of the extreme wildfires that destroyed more than 12,000 homes and ...

The hills above Los Angeles are covered with dense, dark green brush, a unique plant community known as chaparral. In the wake of the extreme wildfires that destroyed more than 12,000 homes and ...