Barbara Chung turned her townhouse terrace into a habitat garden of California native plants. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — ...

Planting a hedgerow is an excellent way to attract pollinators to your garden. Question: I have heard that planting a hedgerow next to my vegetable garden will encourage pollinators and other ...

With several students each summer and the director of community engagement Gail Heffner, Professor Dave Warners investigated the restoration of native plants and native habitats in urban areas that ...

Here in Southern California, we are fortunate to be a short drive from many diverse landscapes. We have it all, from coastal sage scrub, riparian streams, alpine forests and inland deserts.

How does habitat diversity influence biodiversity and food webs? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how the number of ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

The Montgomery and Delaware counties Habitat will plant about 250 trees this Saturday in Pottstown, Norristown, Upper Darby, and Lansdowne for Earth Day. Habitat for Humanity is hosting Rock the Block ...

New study addresses the effects of fires on biodiversity loss in the world’s largest forest during the last two decades. Researchers measured the impacts on the habitats of 14,000 species of plants ...

Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — some 200 mostly native plants in pots on her 7-by-20-foot townhouse terrace — and she's happy to erase any doubts about whether patio ...