Tag: California

Six personal essays about or inspired by wildfire.

“Miguel Jr. and Jeannette are troubled that Miguel’s doctors didn’t present ECMO as an option, and then resisted the idea when the family suggested it.”

“Trevor spoke to Doug…“Physically, I’m doing fine,” he said. ‘My body’s just tired because we’ve been doing 20-mile days for eight days in a row.’ It was their final conversation.”

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.

In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.

Svetlana Kitto recalls her 1980s childhood in Hollywood during the early years of the AIDS crisis.

A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.

To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

Trying to form some connection to the father who abandoned him, an outdoorsman surfs the California beach where his father grew up, while looking for answers in the autobiography his father left behind.

Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.

Rising sea levels and aggressive erosion could prove to be the greatest crisis modern Californians will ever face.

Dead bodies, shots fired at passing cars, rumors of a survivalist carrying a rifle — what is happening around Malibu Creek State Park, and did police capture the right suspect?

Harmony Holiday remembers her mother’s years of trauma-bonding in search of new love, after the death of her mercurial yet brilliant father.

Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.

During a month hiking Muir’s “Range of Light,” three young women traversed snowy mountain passes, ran out of food, confronted a gendered wilderness, and learned to deal with each other.

It took eight years to write the story of Richardson Bay’s boat community, known as the anchor-outs.

To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?

The death of an iconic California glacier signals the loss of one scientist’s work, the end of an epoch, and possibly the beginning of a new era of mass extinction.

Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.

In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them.

Instead of building seawalls or raising the land to prepare for rising sea levels, California’s Imperial Beach is considering moving the town a few blocks back from the ocean.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?

How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?

As California gets drier, a woman entering her 30s reflects on PCOS, pregnancy, and her desire to have children.

From his earliest days in California, Arnold was a polarizing, impossible-to-ignore figure.

A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.

Can humans coexist on the beaches of Santa Monica along with wildlife? A beach “rewilding” project aims to find out.

Even when you’re already bracing for a negative response, no one expects an attack golfer.