Conservation efforts for the rare Sierra Nevada red fox can be strengthened through new computer modeling based on a 12-year data gathering partnership led by scientists at Oregon State University's Institute for Natural ...
Plants & Animals
May 29, 2023
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The McCloud River redband trout, or O. mykiss calisulat, is newly identified as its own distinct subspecies of rainbow trout in a study from the University of California, Davis. It is the first newly identified subspecies ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2023
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A brutal summer of record heat and punishing drought has claimed yet another California victim: the majestic, snow-covered slopes of Mount Shasta.
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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A group of University of Wyoming professors and students has identified an unusual belt of igneous rocks that stretches for over 2,000 miles from British Columbia, Canada, to Sonora, Mexico.
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2021
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Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nicholls College, has directed the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project since 1983, which focuses on the glaciers of that range, located in Washington State. He has written about that project ...
Environment
Oct 22, 2020
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Margaret Mangan didn't sleep well in the weeks following the Ridgecrest, Calif., earthquakes. The July shaking triggered a swarm of smaller tremors in the nearby Coso Volcanic Field, a cluster of lava domes and cinder cones ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2019
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Nearly 200,000 people live, work or pass through one of California's volcanic hazard zones on a daily basis, and there's a 16 percent chance of an eruption in the state within the next 30 years.
Environment
Mar 2, 2019
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The eruption of a Hawaii volcano in the Pacific "Ring of Fire" has experts warily eyeing volcanic peaks on America's West Coast that are also part of the geologically active region.
Environment
May 12, 2018
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Clouds and moonlight are usually the bane of astronomers and astrophotographers. But on a recent evening at Mount Shasta in northern California, the two combined for a stunning look at usual cloud formations called lenticular ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2015
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Jonathan Dove was patrolling Mount Shasta on a clear, warm afternoon when a group of backpackers asked him if Mud Creek Canyon on the Northern California peak always flowed so heavily.
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2014
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