Get outside. It makes You happy! This L.A. Times piece highlights an interesting study carried out by psychologists from the University of Rochester.
Subjects were shown sets of images and were then immediately asked a set of questions.  Those that had seen images of natural environments held community and family values higher than those that had [...]

New University of California study predicts that up to one-third of California bird spieces may move out of state as their habitat transforms due to climate change.

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I can't wait to see this new Ken Burns film. It just debuted at Mountainfilm in Telluride. The rest of us have to wait until September 27 to see it. Here's the trailer: Via PBS:Filmed over the course of more than s

The final snow survey of the season has come and gone and the Department of Water Resources has found that the 08/09 snowpack measures up at 66% of average. That marks the third straight year of below average snow depths. From myMotherLoad:

Never thought about that one before. Forest fires have always been simply an effect, in my mind, of higher temps, drier climates and longer summer seasons. This new study makes it sound more like a vicious feedback loop in which forest fir

Happy Earth Day to all. I suggest we all take this day to do something for the planet. Even if it's just to take a moment to acknowledge it, its health, and its importance to all living beings. See below for the latest Repower America video fr

The Interior Department will make a stop in San Francisco on Thursday for the next in a series of public hearings on offshore drilling.I'm no petroleum or environmental sciences expert (few are), but I do know two things: I don't w

And here I thought we had a huge year. Must be the law of shifting baselines. With more bad years than good years lately, even a normal year is starting to feel like a great year, ya know? Of course my thoughts are always with ski conditio

President Obama today signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act into law. That's a long-winded legal name for an act that protects a TON of public land that has until now lived under constant threat. This is a massive piece of legi

Check out the toll a hundred years of global warming can take on a fragile Sierra glacier. This photographer is going all over the Sierra taking photos of all the glaciers for comparison with historical photos. In the video below, he describes his