While the Santa Ana winds, arsonists, electrical mishaps, and campfires have taken most of the blame, eucalyptus is also ...

Worsening fire conditions are the biggest threat. As large trees develop over centuries, large fissures form in their trunks.

Despite its introduction to the Indian subcontinent nearly 400 years ago, eucalyptus is often unfairly criticised. Some ...

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...

Portuguese eucalyptus forests are helping to replace plastics, but as the country’s climate warms up, this highly flammable tree is a growing threat to people and biodiversity. Portuguese ...

Before Europeans settled Australia more than two centuries ago, about ten million koalas lived in a 1,500-mile-long swath of the east coast eucalyptus forests. Hunted for their luxurious fur ...

Statistics from the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) indicate that the area under eucalyptus tripled from less than 50,000 ha in 2009 to the current 150,000 ha, making it the most popular and preferred ...

BENGALURU: The state forest department is undertaking the task of uprooting old eucalyptus trees from government and forest lands in the state, after obtaining permission from the Central government.

They were a minor plant, so to speak, until about 20 million years ago when a drying of the continent and a depletion of ground nutrients allowed for a more open forest type. Now, the eucalyptus ...