Native insects have evolved along with native plants, so they recognize them as food. Filling a garden with exotic plants ...

Late afternoon sunlight streams through the flora at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic ...

The Santa Cruz River, dried up and polluted, came back to life recently, sustained by highly treated wastewater from two ...

A university biologist fears Project Blue data centers will need reclaimed water that now runs in the Santa Cruz. Tucson ...

Pacific Grove Cares has completed major renovations at Caledonia and Chase Park West, enhancing the landscape with native plants to attract pollinators.

The cleaning is done by exposing the water to sunlight and filtering it through native plants like cattails before it returns to storm drains and, eventually, the Santa Monica Bay.

Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the California coast.

SANTA CRUZ — When room ran out in his car, Bob “Doc” Scott bought a 15-seat bus and told all the young Santa Cruz surfing “groms” he could find to pile in. But they weren’t headed to ...

In April, soil was laid on the 101 Freeway crossing in preparation for thousands of native plants to create a nearly one-acre wildlife habitat.

The bell tower design stands out as unique among California missions. Step inside to discover artwork brought from Spain in sailing ships long ago. The baptismal font, carved from a single stone, has ...

Tucked away along California’s magnificent Highway 1, Bean Hollow State Beach exists as a coastal secret that somehow escaped the fame factory that turned so many other beaches into tourist postcards ...