Claim: Ficus trees that were to be uprooted and transplanted in Mosta are an alien and invasive species. Verdict: Ficus microcarpa is listed as an alien species within an ERA annex but not in the ...

Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

Tens of thousands of ficus trees throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

The deadly botryosphaeria fungus has infected more than 25 percent of Los Angeles County’s ficus trees, the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner’s office said this week. The fungus is airborne and ...

More than 1,600 mature street trees in Long Beach and tens of thousands throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to ...

Now that everyone dearly loves — and understands the shady, cooling properties of — urban street trees, they are dying all around us. Sadly it’s not just the street trees dying, of course. Even our ...

A tree falls in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, but the question is not whether it makes a sound. The question is what can be done to keep such trees from sending splayed branches into busy ...