Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area.

If you see a large, intimidating gray and yellow lizard, it’s probably a Nile monitor. They eat anything from bugs to iguanas ...

A trap for red palm weevils is set to protect the date palms at the Coconut Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

In 1949, a city councilwoman spearheaded a project to plant hundreds of palm trees along Palm Canyon Drive, solidifying the city's identity. While palm trees ultimately gave the city its name ...

Daybreak filters through the fever trees and umbrella thorns of South Africa's White Umfolozi River ... Lions, like most native animals, became locally extinct in the decades following the Anglo ...

There are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild. Logging and palm oil plantations have destroyed their habitat ...

What would you see on a day trip to the new Chuckwalla National Monument? Rugged mountains, sweeping valleys, breathtaking ...

The worst threats in Arizona come from non-native plants that have taken root in the lowlands ... Buffelgrass, an invasive species from South Africa now at the center of Arizona’s invasive grass ...

Measuring around nine feet (2.7 meters) tall, Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 centimeters) shorter than their African counterparts.

On a roadtrip through sleepy towns and coastal waterways, Tayari Jones unveils a history more relevant than ever. South Carolina's coast, made up of islands, marshes, deltas, rivers, and small ...