California poppies are blooming along Empire Grade near the West Entrance to UC Santa Cruz.

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our ...

In far Northern California, beneath a towering mountain ridge still covered in April snow, one of the state's last cowboys ...

Backpacking from Mexico to Oregon on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1985, we passed through fields of flowers. Splashes of cactus ...

See California in bloom this spring by visiting this nature reserve where colorful wildflowers blanket the hills and line ...

A curious reader asked Lookout why cows graze at Arana Gulch, a city-owned park north of the Santa Cruz Harbor. The search ...

About 2 hours from San Francisco, 3 hours from Oakland, and 5 hours from Los Angeles sits Pinnacles National Park. This ...

Learn about native plants for free from the experts April 26-27 at the L.A. Times Plants' Native Plant Booth at the Festival ...

While plant-based dining has an inherently low carbon footprint due to producing fewer greenhouse gas emissions, methods like wild-caught fishing and rotational, grass-fed grazing help reduce the ...

Poppy, a pygmy hippo born into the Metro Richmond Zoo in December, has taken her first steps outside. She’s now viewable to the public at the zoo’s Hippo Haven habitat. The 4-month-old hippo is ...

Confirming the happy news, Lauren - who strikes a remarkable resemblance to Poppy with her slender figure, chiselled cheekbones and light blonde hair - shared a photo on Instagram of herself and ...

A mountain lion cub has proven that he might be ready to return to the California wilderness after ... showing he’ll soon be ready to return to the wild, officials said. The whole process ...