GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A day before the sunshine state’s Arbor Day, Gainesville officials celebrated by giving out trees for citizens to plant. Thursday, the city of Gainesville hosted the Florida ...

Police are investigating a fatal crash that involved a car that slammed into a palm tree in Coconut Creek Thursday ... of Wiles Road just west of the Florida's Turnpike. Coconut Creek Police ...

MIAMI – Controversy continues to heat up surrounding a proposed ordinance the city of Miami is considering that would change the city code on tree removal. The commissioner sponsoring the move ...

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Duke Energy wants to help replace some of it: specifically, the trees. On Friday, Jan. 17 (Florida Arbor Day!), Duke Energy Florida is giving away 1,000 free 1-gallon trees to its customers ...

Eucalyptus trees – native to Australia – were seen as an easy solution to a critical shortage of wood brought on by the economic boom. Opportunistic Aussies “imported and planted them in ...

At least part of the answer may lay with a beautiful, expansive, but pernicious plant: the eucalyptus tree. Eucalyptus is a genus that holds over 700 species of flowering plants. With the exception of ...

Bald cypress trees, pictured here at the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, are among the tree varieties that will be available for free this week to celebrate Florida Arbor Day. Photo: Kathryn Varn ...

He noted the ficus trees on Milpas Street, the eucalyptus trees on Mesa Lane and trees along West Beach that drop “those big pods on your head.” “These will be things to wrestle with in the ...

A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida's signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases.

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...