Flash Flood! … From Texas to California
As the death toll rises to more than 130 and scores are still missing in the July 4, 2025 Texas flash flood, at least three questions haunt us: Why...
Water Resources
Wells, Crops, and Crisis
Exploring the Spatial Relationships Between Groundwater Depletion, Crops and Landcover in Tulare County, CA. At Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography, one of our missions is to feature the...
Big Ag Vs. Small Regenerative Farming
Join us on this field trip into the heart of Central Valley agriculture as we visit two contrasting farms: a small regenerative family farm and then one of the...
Cal Naturalists Invade Yosemite
Follow our UC California Naturalists experiential learning adventures through and around Yosemite National Park for one week as we explore and research natural history within some of the most...
Precipitation Extremes in a Bipolar California
How can one state simultaneously experience more than two months of soaking storms and floods AND desiccating drought and wildfires? Here’s a story about stubborn weather patterns that divided...
Zion vs Yosemite: the Science behind the Splendor
Spectacular Sierra Nevada canyons, such as Yosemite and Kings, and the magnificent high desert canyons sliced found found in Zion national Park motivate and challenge us to learn more about the natural history of our dynamic planet.
Hilary Makes Weather History in Southern California
Here is a different story about the tropical storm that made national news and will live long in California history. Hurricane Hilary was exceptional only for the path it...
Chasing the Desert Superbloom, 2023
Our last two stories illustrated how the storms of 2023 left lasting imprints across our Golden State. Here, we compare and contrast landscapes around Anza Borrego and the Antelope...
Tracking Historic Weather Whiplash in the Winter of 2023
Welcome to California’s latest wild swings in peculiar and occasionally cataclysmic weather patterns, brought to you by the winter of 2023. This story is part of our continuing expansion...
Finding STEAM in our Summer Skies
Nature conducted another round of spectacular scientific exhibitions and experiments in the atmosphere above California last summer. When such aesthetic skies are on display, we are given opportunities to...
