In 1949, a city councilwoman spearheaded a project to plant hundreds of palm trees along Palm Canyon Drive, solidifying the city's identity. While palm trees ultimately gave the city its name ...

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Fort Myers is taking steps to restore its iconic image as the "City of Palms" by planting new palm trees along major boulevards. This initiative comes nearly three years after Hurricane Ian ...

Uruguay’s iconic palm trees are under attack by the invasive red palm weevil, a pest from Southeast Asia. First detected in 2022, the insect has already destroyed thousands of trees, including ...

Palm trees along West Cliff Drive are silhouetted during a recent sunset as seen from Main Beach. West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz didn’t have a specific name until “Cliff Drive” emerged in ...