Firefighters are working to put out a tamarisk tree fire burning near Interstate 10 near the Bob Hope exit. CAL FIRE confirmed the fire is an eighth of an acre and is burning at a slow rate of spread.

They might be pretty, but you don't want tamarisk trees on your property. Here's everything to know about the unique quality ...

The tamarisk is degrading the rarest of habitats in the desert southwest - the wetlands. Salt cedar invades springs, ditches, and streambanks. The tree has taken over more than 1 million acres of ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Chinese beetles are being enlisted to fight an invasive tree species that is choking stream banks across the West.

How can trees be racist? That’s the question explored in a new documentary, “Racist Trees,” about a historically Black neighborhood called the Crossley tract in Palm Springs, Calif., whose ...

“A good-sized tamarisk tree has the capacity to drink as much as 200 gallons day … and draw a huge amount of water away from native plants and the water table,” he said.

Documentary Racist Trees looks at a Palm Springs neighborhood that fights to have nuisance trees removed, getting the attention of Tucker Carlson.

Premieres Monday, Jan. 22, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App Local politics, news media, race, class, and gentrification intersect in INDEPENDENT LENS “Racist Trees.” The documentary ...

Chainsaws were a-blazin' and the wood was a-flyin' last weekend as a group of volunteers, including myself, tackled the trespassing tamarisk trees that are infesting the banks of the mighty ...