Manzanita Lake is at the northwest corner entrance of the park and is a huge vacation spot in the summer. It’s popular for ...

The “snowiest” label could depend on whether you’re talking about where the most snow falls or where the most snow piles up.

Lassen Volcanic National Park announced it closed its main through-road on Wednesday after wet autumn storms dumped heavy snow and ice in the Shasta Cascade mountains east of Redding. But you can ...

Though California is known worldwide for its sunshine, there’s only one city that holds the title of the Golden State’s ...

Millions of visitors head to these national parks in California to explore its coastline, forests, mountains, deserts and volcanic beds.

Beryl Rappaport, a microbiologist completing her Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and a team of researchers identified a new eukaryote, a type of amoeba whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus, that ...

At a steaming creek in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a tiny amoeba just raised the heat ceiling for complex ...

Prokaryotes, which have no distinct nucleus, are still the reigning champs of biological toughness, as they can persist in ...

Winter sports lovers, who hoped California’s heavy winter storm on Thursday would drop enough snow in the mountains to kick off an early ski season, need to wait a bit longer. The storm that rolled ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...