How can California drown, and still be relying on a half-empty reservoir? It is difficult not to notice the disconnection of a map. The rains which for Los Angeles or spread snow on the Sierra Nevada ...

After a parade of Pacific storms drenched California, a body of water that had been erased from most modern maps has quietly spread back across the state’s agricultural heartland. The reborn lake is a ...

A small bird called the Wilson’s phalarope journeys thousands of miles between California’s Mono Lake and another salt lake in Argentina. The species has inspired connections between scientists and ...