Every July 4th, for most of the past decade, I log on to Twitter and start retweeting every photo and video I can find of palm trees accidentally set on fire by illegal fireworks. As with most social ...

There’s one good way to bring awareness to just about any subject: making it go viral. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has done just that with a public service announcement about ...

Chinese Flame Trees all over the San Diego region are displaying colorful clusters of orange, reddish, or salmon-pink seed pods. Good specimens line the south end of Balboa Drive in Balboa Park, and ...

Fall Officially Begins on Tuesday, September 22 — possibly good enough to throw a premature, after-work celebratory party. The event is also known as the “autumnal equinox.” Technically, this means ...