UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

The mountain yellow-legged frog was once the most abundant amphibian in Southern California's Sierra Nevada ... California's alpine lakes without tripping over these diminutive “mountain gnomes.” But ...

The Sierra Nevada Mountains got socked with a lot of snow this year. The snowpack has been more than 100% of normal. But some of our mountain ... high,' " said Jeff Wogoman who visited the lakes ...

All Lake Tahoe resorts are seeing great ski and ride conditions for spring. Heavenly Mountain reported 12 inches in the past 24 hours, bringing its seasonal snowfall total to 223 inches. Average ...

But secretive Sierra Nevada red foxes — genetically and geographically distinct from all other red foxes — can only live in the remote, high-elevation reaches of ... warm and push the animals farther ...

Cristina Durán, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, Guillermo Herrera, Presentación Carrillo, Changes in the phytoplankton-bacteria coupling triggered by joint action of UVR, nutrients, and warming in ...

The winter of 2025 hasn’t measured up to 2024 and is far short of the records set in 2023. Despite that, the Eastern Sierra, Northern Nevada and Northern California are […] ...