Tag: California

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.

How California farmers are planning ahead for climate change while balancing their immediate economic concerns.

Annette Miller, a longtime resident of West Oakland’s Ghost Town neighborhood, has witnessed the dramatic transformation of the city as changes sweep the block she’s lived on for over 50 years.

Democrats can flip Orange County, California, from red to blue, as long as they don’t mess it up.

“If you’re doing something small, something that’s mostly your labor and vision, then stick to what makes you satisfied.”

The desert has its own version of Sasquatch, and it’s just as smelly and hairy.

Alex R. Jones starts grocery shopping late at night, and finds a new world opens up to him.

Durante el tiempo que pasó en el Valle de Coachella, California, el periodista Gabriel Thompson exploró cómo las comunidades latinas de la región se han adaptado a una vida de miedos e incertidumbre durante la administración de Trump.

Spending time in California’s Coachella Valley, journalist Gabriel Thompson explores how the region’s Latino communities have adjusted to a life of fear and uncertainty under a Trump administration.

After 40 years of public service, California Governor Jerry Brown is retiring. This is the story of his last days.

Ken Layne designs, edits, and distributes his independent magazine Desert Oracle from tiny Joshua Tree, California.

An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.

Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.

The modern hip-hop classic reflects growing up in Compton “one thousand percent.”

“There just aren’t enough firefighters in the West to fight that much fire.”