Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have been encouraged, for years, to rip ...

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

At this very moment, fires rage in Los Angeles. It’s the worst in the region’s history. So far, it’s killed more than two ...

Cruel trolls have circulated an old post blaming California’s latest bushfires on eucalyptus trees. Experts have hosed down claims the highly-flammable tree is responsible for the latest disaster.

These trees have contributed to wildfires in California and Portugal, which suffers from some of the worst fires in Europe. Getty Images The eucalyptus was regarded as being one of the main ...