LA is expected to warm three to five degrees by the middle of the century, which will triple the number of extreme heat days. And many palms also are dying of old age. More than 40,000 palm trees ...

A century later, it’s hard to imagine LA without these trees. But Angelenos might be right to start trying, because many palm trees live about 100 years. “They're senior citizens,” says Donald Hodel, ...

Like so many things in Southern California, the palm tree was an import from somewhere else that over time became inextricably symbolic of its adopted home. But the trees, so identified with the ...

You can hardly go anywhere in Los Angeles without seeing a palm tree. They line our streets from the boulevards of Beverly Hills to the foothills of the San Gabriels. These ubiquitous palms have ...

To finally make LA a livable city. Our streets need purple canopies—and purple carpets. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) For a better part of a century, we placed palm trees in our most ...