The Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Grove used to be California's largest wintering site for monarch butterflies, but in 2024, only 30 butterflies were counted.

Shutterstock Explore California’s Ecological Wonders California sits along major animal migration paths and has many ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in December 2024 that it was working to list monarchs as threatened.

Hollywood star Josh Brolin has revealed how the stress of moving back to his hometown of Montecito, CA, became so severe that it caused him to develop a mild case of Bell's palsy.

The Xerces Society, a conservation group dedicated to invertebrate protection, announced disheartening news for insect ...

Singers and scribes have waxed poetic for decades about the best beaches in California—here, find our favorites.

The western monarch butterfly is being considered for the endangered species list, but public comment is still being gathered ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly ... at a site in Santa Barbara County, which went from recording 33,200 ...

On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch ...

Sailing aboard the Ruby Princess was more than just a cruise; it was a celebration of life, connections, and California’s captivating coastline. The post A California Coastal Celebration Aboard the ...

A Santa Cruz Metro driver keeps her eyes on the road as she steers her monarch-butterfly-adorned articulated rig up Heller Drive at UC Santa Cruz. The bus is one of 30 wrapped buses Metro operates ...