Starting early October, a low-level aerial survey will map the geology of eastern California and western Nevada using cutting ...

Eastern California is the perhaps the best place in the country to learn geology. The deserts beyond the Sierra Nevada host glacial features, volcanoes and rivers. Beautiful stratigraphic layers are ...

As sea otters recolonize a California estuary, they are restoring its degraded geology by keeping populations of overgrazing marsh crabs in check, a new study shows. The crabs' appetite for plant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nestled in the heart of the UC Davis Arboretum lies the California Rock Garden, an educational haven designed to showcase the ...

FOLLOWING the earlier studies of the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the mining districts of California, there has more recently been an immense amount of detailed and accurate work devoted to ...

Starting in early October, low-level flights will conduct geophysical imaging over eastern California and western Nevada to ...

There’s something exciting about learning how things came to look the way they do. It’s what makes tour guides so popular and why that old neighbor who’s lived on the block for decades is so ...

The return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology. A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay ...