The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...

Listen this fall for their scratchy calls and in spring for the male’s various songs. To read this Bay Nature magazine story ...

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Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land ...

To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn ...

I often imagine what it was like to immigrate to California. The state probably felt big, dry, and daunting. My grandma said she wasn’t ready to leave her life in Hong Kong in the late 1970s when her ...

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A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Iwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...