Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. Stretching along the west coast of North America from northern California to Alaska, the ...

The biome concept organizes large-scale ecological variation. Terrestrial biomes are distinguished primarily by their predominant vegetation, and are mainly determined by temperature and rainfall. Aa ...

Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study ...

Regina Bailey is a science writer, educator, and board-certified registered nurse. Her work has been featured in "Kaplan AP Biology" and "The Internet for Cellular and Molecular Biologists." ...

If you Google “rainforest,” you’re almost assured to get a page of search results mostly about the tropics. Yet, another kind of rainforest also exists: temperate rainforests. Far less expansive than ...

It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest trees here in northern California. The flowers of spring – the trillium and the ...