California’s Drought If you live in California, there’s no way you haven’t noticed the massive amounts of snow and rain being dumped onto our parched, drought-stricken state. There’s no doubt about it: the recent precipitation has unquestionably eased drought conditions in California, and has brought critical relief to wide swaths of the state. But is…
DetailsIf you live in California, you’d better get used to hearing about the “Pineapple Express.” That’s the atmospheric current of moisture that forms over the Pacific Ocean and gets pushed north via the jet stream, and it’s what is responsible for birthing some of California’s recent storms. California is experiencing more and more strange, outlier-type…
DetailsIn 2016, America celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the National Park Service, a government-sponsored effort to preserve and protect the country’s most amazing national spaces, and ensure that they are never sold or exploited for profit or other short-sighted ends. The National Park Service Centennial Act Just recently, President Obama signed the National Park Service…
DetailsYosemite Valley. It’s long been the mecca for rock climbers across the world, due to its perfect, dazzling granite faces caused by glacial erosion ages ago. The Valley is home to some of the most difficult and unrelenting climbs anywhere on the planet, many of which can take weeks or more to complete. There is one…
DetailsOn the western limits of the Owens Valley just outside of Bishop, CA, lies a legendary geological and ecological area known as The Buttermilks. You would think that California already had as much awe-inspiring geology as it could handle, considering the state is home to Yosemite Valley, Stoney Point, Tahquitz, and other mind-bogglingly beautiful rock formations.…
DetailsMany Californians aren’t aware that the state, by law, is hurtling towards a major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Executive Order B-30-15, codified into law this month, requires California to be 40 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2030. Ranchers and farmers aren’t in this alone, however. California has launched…
DetailsAn Exciting Discovery When researchers delved deep into a Siberian mine looking to study the minerals within, they ended up getting much more than they bargained for. As they detailed in their findings published in Science Advances, the scientists were able to confirm the existence of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) occurring naturally. Why is this such a…
DetailsPlanet Earth is an amazing place, to say the least. In our search for another heavenly body that bears life and the same favorable conditions for it that we have, humanity has thus far come up short. This incredible planet has given us massive quantities of natural resources, as well as jaw-droppingly spectacular vistas and…
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