The 40-foot waterfall doesn’t give itself away easily, requiring an 8.4-mile round-trip hike that weeds out the casual sightseers from the determined waterfall enthusiasts. You won’t find gift shops, ...

Gaviota State Beach, nestled along Highway 101 north of Santa Barbara, is the Golden State’s best-kept secret hiding in plain sight. The word “Gaviota” rolls off the tongue like something exotic and ...

California's Central Valley is no stranger to wildfires, earthquakes and flooding, but the geological problem that is really ...

California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) raise their young in crazy places. Cliffsides or rockfall on the sides of mountains are the typical haunts of condor families, making nest monitoring ...

The study by the University of California, Riverside and published in the Journal Land Economics determined that homes in gradually sinking, or subsiding, areas have lost between 2.4% and 5.8% of ...

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault ...

California’s Central Valley is still sinking. This reality has had scientists worried for more than a century, but a recent ...

The recent, small earthquakes that rattled the New York metro area serve as a reminder that seismic activity does occur in ...

The quakes struck near Rialto, Ontario and Lytle Creek in San Bernardino County, producing weak to light shaking, according ...

Multiple earthquakes shook Southern California hours after a tremor was felt on the East Coast on Aug. 5, according to data ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

Earthquakes’ sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches. They can happen anywhere, but they’re ...