John Muir’s fabled Range of Light appears seemingly out of nowhere when a storm rolls across the central San Joaquin Valley, clearing our skies of dirty air, before quickly fading and disappearing ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

If your ski trips only involve downhill skiing, you're missing out. Here's out to get the most out of your winter trip to ...

But none were quite as formidable as the snowy granite mountain range rising east of Sacramento. Getting through the Sierra Nevada would require fortitude, technology -- and the sacrifice of many ...

RANGE: Historically, mountain yellow-legged frogs were found throughout the higher elevations in the Transverse Ranges in Southern California and in the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada. The ...

The mountain yellow-legged frog was once the most abundant amphibian in Southern California's Sierra Nevada and Transverse Ranges. Just decades ago, it was hard to walk around many of California's ...