The Miracle of Cabo Pulmo in Baja California

The Walls of Yosemite Are Coming Down

Exfoliation helped create Yosemite’s famous rounded granite domes and continues to peel the cliffs apart in massive sheets of rock.

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Inside The Huntington’s Extraordinary Succulent Garden

At The Huntington, one of the world’s great succulent collections reveals how plants from some of Earth’s harshest climates evolved to survive, even as many species face threats from plant theft.

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It’s Going to Be a Sharky Summer. Here’s Why That’s Okay.

Shark populations are rebounding along California’s coast, and the risks may be far lower than people think, says Chris Lowe, the director of the Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach.

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That Time We Tried to Live Under the Sea Off California

One of the most ambitious attempts to allow humans to live on the ocean floor took place just off San Diego. It’s called SEALAB II.

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Why Southern California is the Stingray Capital of the World

According to research led by Dr. Chris Lowe at California State University, Long Beach Shark Lab, Southern California’s nearshore waters may host one of the densest concentrations of stingrays anywhere in the world.

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How the Jones Act Strangles California Innovation and Keeps I-5 Packed with Trucks

California’s highways are clogged with trucks moving goods that could travel by sea, but the Jones Act makes coastal shipping too costly to scale, locking freight onto crowded roads and limiting a cleaner alternative.

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