Bicycle friendly communities are spreading across California for many good reasons, exploding our car culture stereotypes and connecting us to our diverse neighborhoods. Peddling Positive Pedaling A few decades...
This is an abbreviated final obituary to follow up on Rob O’Keefe’s earlier essay (see adjacent story) about tropical system Kay’s historic impact on California. As forecast by the...
Just this past week, a monstrous heat wave broke temperature records in many parts of the state — especially in the Bay Area and several Central Valley cities. And...
Perhaps the greatest aspect of the discipline of geography is that it is limited only by your imagination. You can explore any subject or phenomenon on the face of...
We live in exciting times, times when geospatial technologies are helping us to ponder, explore, understand, and even solve complicated, multi-faceted problems. At colleges across the Golden State, like...
People have been searching for and often finding better living and working conditions in California since Native Americans migrated and then settled here thousands of years ago. This helps...
When temperatures rise during early summer, residents of the desert and mountain Southwest U.S. begin anticipating the arrival of their annual monsoon season. (1) Welcome to our first in...
While inland California baked and burned, why was the weather relatively cold and foggy along the immediate coast during early-to-mid summer, 2021? San Francisco and most other locations on...
It has become an unfortunate and disturbing annual Golden State dance during the last several years. Severe drought plagues the majority of the state, followed by extended record heat...
Stereotyping often allows us to confirm our preconceived, superficial notions about people and places. It requires little work or investigation and is even encouraged within our misinformed social media...
Ride across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.
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