Sulfur butterflies glide across Zorrillo Canyon, hundreds of them, moving back and forth against the cerulean sky. It's ...

Crickets chirp in the night as Gerardo Marrón calls to an elf owl on a Baja California Sur mountainside in late October.

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New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

Recently, I joined an expedition to Baja Sur as Natural History Museum scientists explored its canyons and mountaintops, in ...

Two of the most destructive wildfires on record in California forever changed landscapes and lives when they burned into ...

Gingerbread is sweet, warm, and a little bit spicy, which is why it's the perfect name for the first Northern Elephant Seal pup to be born at Piedras Blancas Rookery in Central California this winter.

Still looking for a Christmas tree in California? It’ll cost you. The Golden State has the most expensive holiday evergreens in the nation, according to Sixt, a Germany-based car rental company. Sixt ...

Each winter, migrant crews climb into the Sierra to cut wild silvertip firs, a fragile tradition now imperiled by wildfire, climate change, and tightening immigration laws. High on the volcanic ...

Two people were seen on camera throwing rocks at an elephant seal on Point Reyes National Seashore, rangers say. JASON MOYER Unsplash A camera caught two visitors pelting an elephant seal with rocks ...