In 2023, my colleague Yusra Farzan documented giant tumbleweed sightings in a number of Southern California cities. Russian thistles, better known as tumbleweeds, arrived in South Dakota in the 1870s ...

Late summer into early winter is when we see tumbleweeds in Southern California, blown about by strong Santa Ana winds. But you may not know how intrusive and dangerous they are. Why it matters ...

Tumbleweeds are movie icons ... By the turn of the twentieth century, Russian thistle had made its way to California, where overgrazing had depleted sagebrush desert of it native plants, leaving ample ...

Tumbleweeds around me sing their lonely song ... There was no arch over the road, like the one in Castroville, California, “artichoke center of the world.” Being the home of Russian thistle ...