Feeling the weight of the world, a writer embarks on a mission: She would immerse herself in a different body of water every ...

Just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, where the bustle of San Francisco fades into memory, lies a mountain that transforms from misty dreamscape to sun-drenched paradise with each passing hour. A place ...

With China-Taiwan rivalry, China-Western competition, and big carbon emitters at odds with the islands on climate policy, there is plenty of tension to go around. But, for all its space in the ...

It’s a wilderness out there. Have you ever wondered why the population centers of Northern California huddle in sheltered pockets well inland from the outer coast? It’s not exactly hospitable for ...

According to the Virgin Islands Department of Planning & Natural Resources, “beaches cannot be fenced off" Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Peaceful little Gleason Beach is nestled midway between Bodega Bay and Jenner, hidden in a pastoral valley just north of the small communities of Carmet and Sereno del Mar, where... Close to Home: Is ...

Catherine Breed of Strawberry broke the speed record for swimming from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge last week, completing the 30-mile journey in 13 hours, 54 minutes and 10 seconds.

A female Western gull pulled off an unusual commute in 2018 and handed biologists a head scratcher. She rode a long-haul garbage transfer truck about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from San Francisco to a ...

Open-water swimmer Catherine Breed swam from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a chilly 30-mile journey through some of the Pacific Ocean’s most notorious great white shark ...