Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Nicole Vas / Los Angeles Times; photos by Raul Roa / Los Angeles Times and Unsplash) Last year, we began ...

It’s February in the Columbia River Gorge. Cold and windy, with a hint of snow in the air. About 50 miles east of Portland, on the Washington side of the river, the chill has brought a sense of winter ...

In our own backyard at CSUN, an issue plagued the Orange Grove pond for the past few months. The water in the pond became polluted, causing backlash among members of the community, many of whom ...

In many turtle species, temperature determines the sex of hatchlings — a biological process known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). Rather than genetics alone deciding whether a sea ...