This past January, I spent a Saturday morning logged in from home, not just as an observer but as a student of a growing and urgent movement. I was attending ...

Encinitas planners and officials are pursuing local legislation to improve standards and transparency around native plant landscaping.

While climates are regional patterns of weather, microclimates are smaller areas within them which exhibit distinct ...

Discover California’s first state park, where massive redwoods, quiet forest trails, and remarkable wildfire recovery make ...

Some folks move potted plants indoors over winter or change the home environment for year-round houseplants. But no matter what, don't put plants in this place.

Amanda Weidner with the Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office writes about the annual Western Landscape Symposium and what's in store for 2026.

The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130,000-square-mile expanse in western China was exactly that — a furnace of ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Join Channelkeeper for an educational, guided/interpretive nature walk led by ...

Toyon, or “Christmas-berry,” one of the more distinctive shrubs of Southern California’s native chaparral plant community, is now flaunting clusters of red berries. Here in coastal San Diego, toyon ...

LOS ANGELES — Nine months after one of the worst fires the region has seen in recorded history, a helicopter carrying two of the most consequential politicians in the fight against Southern California ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, records a video during an aerial tour of a wildfire risk reduction ...

In August, the rapid-moving Keith fire swept through a key conservation site managed by Rivers & Lands Conservancy near Murrieta. As the warm morning sunrise began casting light on the blackened ...