December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the ...

The quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga) is in the rose family along with apples and pears, but is the only member in the Cydonia group. The fruit is tough to cut, and the cut flesh is the color of an apple ...

THE presence of fire-blight of pear, an extremely destructive bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al., has recently been confirmed in England. This represents the ...

It may look pretty in bloom, but don’t be fooled—its blossoms stink, and so does its invasive ways!

One of the goals of pear breeding research is to create pears with improved tolerance to fire blight, a major pear disease worldwide. Currently, most popular pear varieties consumed worldwide are ...

At that time, botanists were searching the globe for a pear species resistant to a bacterial blight plaguing the pear population native to the US; the flowering pear was one of a number of pear ...

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- Firefighters are battling a wind-driven brush fire in Malibu that prompted evacuation orders and warnings for much of the city and caused Pepperdine University students to ...

The Franklin Fire remains a major threat to homes and prompted the evacuation of the Malibu Beach RV park on the 25800 block of Pacific Coast Highway. As of Wednesday, the fire was mapped at 4,037 ...

A food van near Delhi's Vishwavidyalaya metro station caught fire on Sunday morning, sending plumes of black smoke into the air. The Delhi Fire Services extinguished the blaze, which broke out ...

Thousands of people in Southern California were under evacuation orders or warnings on Tuesday, as the Franklin Fire roared through the wealthy Malibu area and firefighters struggled to contain it.

Editor's note: As of Thursday, Dec. 12, the Franklin Fire is still consuming thousands of acres. Click here for the latest. SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Firefighters began to contain a fast-growing ...