As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

More than half of humanity lives in cities, and the importance of nature has risen rapidly up the urban agenda in recent ...

A report by California's Legislative Analyst's Office warns lawmakers that the rapid increase of residential electricity ...

President Joe Biden issued an executive order calling for the protection of the last mature and old-growth forests on federal ...

Tropical forests, often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," are essential for sustaining life on our planet. They provide clean air, water, and unparalleled biodiversity. While deforestation due ...

One listener asked how the advent of air conditioning affected Arizona’s population growth. KJZZ’s Nate Engle found out.

One of the things I have learned over years of hiking countless mountain miles is the ‘trail principle’. When hoping to get ...

Analysis of 6,000-year-old trees that melted out of a Beartooth Mountain ice patch provide a greater understanding of how ...

"After this plant has rooted, it will begin to grow quickly and can potentially reach up to two meters in length. You can ...

Plant competition is an instrumental part of natural ecosystems with winners and losers in all cases, but it is really ...

Ultimately, simulation results show that an increase in temperature leads to a lower discharge field strength, an increase in the number of PDs, a faster growth rate of electrical trees, and a ...

In 1922, according to an article in The Daily Appeal , four catalpa trees graced the Capitol grounds. "They are in full bloom, and with their immense green leaves and beautiful snow-white blossoms, ...