When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7—quickly spreading to more than 200 acres in ...

The Chaparral high school girls soccer team, which has won five state titles since 2017, is seeking to get back to its ...

Los Angeles is dominated by chaparral, a type of scrub that occurs in Mediterranean climates where there is dense, rocky soil ...

The mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County are in “extreme drought” conditions, about 36% of the county, explained ...

Unlike the forests or the prairie, fires in the chaparral are infrequent and intensely hot. While the Native Americans in California deliberately set fires to shrubland, they were not trying to ...

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...

For years, some of us have fought for putting utility equipment underground.

Pop across Highway 37 (enjoying the bird-filled Napa-Sonoma Marshes along the way) and in 30 minutes you’re in another avian ...

a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido on Jan. 23. Ecosystems are used to this seesaw effect, he said and fire is part of the Mediterranean climate of Southern ...

The increased frequency and size of conflagrations like those burning in LA threaten even species that evolved with wildfires ...