Palm trees are as iconic in L.A.’s landscape as the Hollywood sign. But they really don’t belong here. Most are not native, and some argue that palm trees are not only unnatural, but damaging to ...

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A Hawaii without palm trees is hard to imagine. They are part of the landscape that travelers associate with the Islands before they are on the plane — framing pink and fiery sunsets in photos, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A legendary “walking” tree has captivated rainforest ...

SYDNEY, NSW - AUGUST 09: A Cane Toad is exhibited at Taronga Zoo August 9, 2005 in Sydney, Australia. The Cane Toad, which is poisonous, is reportedly being blamed for the deaths of a number of ...

Welcome to Monday! ‘Tis the season for road construction, and two of the major projects in the city have updates this morning, while there’s also news for anyone traveling on a section of sidewalk ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

Ximena Suarez of San Francisco walks along North Hillcrest Road looking for a spot to take pictures Feb. 23, 2025, in Beverly Hills. The man stood in the middle of the road in decadent Beverly Hills, ...

The man stood in the middle of the road in decadent Beverly Hills, gawking at one of those only-in-L.A. streetscapes. He was looking at a row of palm trees in linear formation, like soldiers awaiting ...