The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base ...

These trees burn more easily than fire-adapted species like pine and sequoia that once dominated the forest. And they can act as ladders that carry flames into the canopies of the larger trees.

In this case, the greenwashing is particularly misleading, because burning trees defies the carbon math in another way, too: once they have been cut down, the trees won’t be there to soak up the ...

DENVER - First, a freak windstorm flattened 4 million trees. Then came a spruce beetle epidemic. Now, a lightning-sparked wildfire is burning the dead wood.

Is Burning Trees Still Green? ... "What's actually happening is we are basically cutting down perfectly healthy, productive trees," says Tim Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University.

Palm trees can be seen in several photos still upright amid the burning wrecks of homes and cars set alight this week by the fires which have so far claimed 16 lives and left more than 200,000 ...

Trees grow on forest land adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, near Ashford, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ...

When firefighters from the Ridgeville Township Volunteer Firefighter Department arrived on the scene to extinguish a burning tree Tuesday morning, they were met with a particularly challenging job ...

While referring to their findings of 2017, they wrote that “air pollution from burning firewood in homes was responsible for 9,800 to 16,000 deaths, burning biomass in industrial boilers had a ...