In the second part of Voyages' journey along the California Current, we explore the Golden State's North Coast, where the line between land and sea is a very blurry one. You can see that blurriness amidst the gargantuan forests of the Redwood Coast, which wouldn't exist if not for ties for the cold Pacific Ocean. You can see it even more clearly in the intertidal zone, where sea becomes land twice a day, and there are few finer places to experience this transition zone than the dramatic Mendocino and Sonoma County shores.
The Hill Country of central Texas is rich in fossils from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, and these fossils have been...
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...
Conifers - trees with cones and needles - are important to cultures across the globe. This time of year many of us are bringing...