While these low-maintenance trees often need lots of sun and warm temperatures to thrive, many species are surprisingly ...

By Louise Hunt Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis ...

Of the 30 species the group identified, palm trees were highly likely to die if struck by lightning, while four species of broadleaf trees—a diverse group of seed-bearing, flowering trees—had ...

Stately palm trees, lining neighborhoods ... Coastal sage scrub and chaparral, which provide habitat to numerous species of insects, reptiles and mammals, burn readily and in fact need fire ...

You can drive for hours, passing a parade of tanker trucks carrying palm oil, and barely see another species of tree. In Sabah in the 1970s, the government turned to agriculture to address its ...

The most visible threat to western Joshua trees is direct killing by developers, who bulldoze them by the thousands to build roads, warehouses, power plants, strip malls and vacation rentals. But ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a bill to combat the coconut rhinoceros beetle. House Bill 643 ...