Along the iconic Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, palm trees line both sides of the roadway. They tower above the tourists and traffic, synonymous with Los Angeles in the minds of visitors.

Outside most In-N-Out stores stand two palm trees crossed together, like a pair of scissors wearing festive green wigs. There’s actually a reason behind this, besides the obvious fact that it ...

Even among the bright graffiti, billboards, and neon lights of Sunset Boulevard, the derelict ... applied this whitewashing technique to trees in Paris’s Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the ...