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A rare earth metals mine in California could be the United States answer to Chinese dominance. open.substack.com/pub/califo…
You see them everywhere along California’s highways, they are road cuts. You probably ignore them, but to geologists they are a gold mind of information about California’s deep past. californiacurated.substack.c…
The University of California stands among the world’s leading university systems, with all nine undergraduate campuses ranked in the top 20% of universities worldwide in the latest Times Higher Education rankings. Go California! universityofcalifornia.edu/n…
The Complicated Legacy of Founders Grove and the Save the Redwoods League californiacurated.substack.c…
California is the only state that has all three types of plate tectonic boundaries (subduction zone in the north, transform boundary along the San Andreas fault zone, and spreading ridge in the Salton Trough and Gulf of California) within it.
Howland Hill Road: A Drive Back in Time Through California's Ancient Red... youtube.com/shorts/3sEMm1szu… via @YouTube
We covered it deeply last year: californiacurated.com/blog/c…
California’s universities are engines of discovery. UC faculty and staff have won 75 Nobel Prizes since 1934.
This year’s Nobels are coming up. Follow us for updates on California’s winners and more stories about the science happening across the state.
California is full of great science stories, and finding them is what we do. If you love the science, history, and wildlife of the Golden State, follow @ScienceWeekly
Sea turtles living in a concrete river in Los Angeles. 4,000-year-old trees in the White Mountains. And more!
There are wild sea turtles living in a concrete river in Los Angeles County.
Green sea turtles, in the San Gabriel River, drawn by warm water from nearby power plants.
Most people driving over it have no idea they're there.
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🪸 🏆 Congratulations to Scripps marine ecologist Jennifer Smith, who earned a @UofCalifornia Regents Innovation Award! She was recognized for her work developing cutting-edge techniques to study and restore marine ecosystems. Learn more: universityofcalifornia.edu/n…
ALT Marine ecologist Jennifer Smith works on cultivating the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis in her lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Photo from March 2019.
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. californiacurated.com/blog/t…
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A stark new global report finds that 45% of migratory bird species are declining, with one in nine threatened with extinction. That makes places like Upper Newport Bay, a vital stop along the Pacific Flyway, more important than ever. Here’s our story:
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A friend told me all the smart people are moving from California to Texas.
Nobel laureates at California institutions: 109
At Texas institutions: 12
California has more than NINE times as many.
But sure, tell me again where all the smart people are going?
A stark new global report finds that 45% of migratory bird species are declining, with one in nine threatened with extinction. That makes places like Upper Newport Bay, a vital stop along the Pacific Flyway, more important than ever. Here’s our story:
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Blue whales' length is routinely exaggerated. Extreme and questionable historical figures are repeated as though they describe typical whales, including much smaller blue whales seen off California. They are magnificent enough without stretching the truth. californiacurated.substack.c…
Nearly half of migratory bird species are declining. For California, the warning runs straight down the Pacific Flyway, linking Arctic breeding grounds with Central Valley wetlands and the coast.
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Happy birthday, California!!! From California Curated!
California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. Its unusually rapid transition from Mexican territory to U.S. statehood followed the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the discovery of gold and an influx of newcomers.
A Los Angeles County judge has tentatively rejected an effort to halt the Catalina Island Conservancy’s plan to eliminate most of the island’s approximately 2,000 nonnative mule deer. Good or bad? I can’t decide. latimes.com/california/story…
