In 2021, one of Claire Vaye Watkins’ friends told her about a protest at the site of a future solar array called Yellow Pine Solar Project.  The project, intended to further state and federal energy ...

Sweet names can mask sinister places. Take, for example, Yellow Pine, a fictional site that is also the title of Claire Vaye Watkins’s third novel. Yellow Pine’s a contested space: the phrase ...

Disease-resistant trees and climate-refugia mapping are driving ambitious plans to bring back iconic, threatened alpine tree.

Claire Vaye Watkins, a UC Irvine writing professor, opens up about the inspiration behind her sharp and funny new novel ...

But with back-to-school ads in full swing, it’s hard not to have fall on the mind. And with fall thoughts, comes fall foliage ...

Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris and Pinus elliottii of the family Pinaceae), also called fat pine or heart pine, is one of the four major species making up the southern pines. It is the strongest of ...

State and federal agriculture officials have confirmed the first detection of citrus yellow vein clearing virus in San Joaquin County, prompting a quarantine around a residential neighborhood ...

Tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings expired earlier in the afternoon after wind gusts brought down tree limbs and ...

Ready to carve out some fun this fall? Lean into seasonal humor with these hilarious fall jokes. Fall jokes guaranteed to make you laugh The leaves are changing, the air is getting crisp, and the ...