Q: I purchased a home last year that has 35-year-old used railroad ties that have been painted white on some sides and used for raised planter beds. I have heard that treated wood could leach toxins ...

There’s nothing that evokes the Sonoran desert more than the smell of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) after the rain. These remarkable plants are native to all of the North American deserts, ...

One doesn't have to look far to see a wonder of the plant world in Joshua Tree National Park. Known scientifically as Larrea tridentata, and in common parlance as the creosote bush, it produces small, ...

HOUSTON — More east Houston residents believe a former creosote treatment site currently owned by Union Pacific Railroad is responsible for a variety of their physical ailments and diseases, including ...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - The planting of 8,000 cottonwood and willow trees, as well as native grass and alfalfa, has begun showing results cleaning up a site contaminated with creosote, an environmental ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on April 19 issued a notice of violation against Stella-Jones, which owns a creosote manufacturing facility near the Homer and Bald Hill communities, for ...

Hand-picked creosote bundles dry in a basket at Sonoran Rosie’s workshop on Friday, July 1. Also known as chaparral, these bundles will release the smell of monsoon once activated by a shower’s steam.

When large patches of oily film appeared on slower running sections of the Bow River in Calgary nearly six decades ago, a wood preserving plant just upstream on the west end of the city’s downtown was ...