The Sierra Nevada, once a tranquil stretch of towering pines and snow-capped peaks, is now a stage for a new kind of ...

Vote now for The News Tribune’s Girls Athlete of the Week for contests played between April 14-19. Voting will remain open until noon Wednesday. The poll is located below. You can read about all of ...

My trip to the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival was a self-bestowed retirement gift, fulfilling a desire to experience one of birding’s premier annual gatherings. More directly, it was my chance ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

Even in urban environments, where our sense of ecological place is obscured by concrete and steel, we are hard-wired to seek ...