The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...

Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which supplies about one-third of California’s water needs, was far lower than average for the ...

where the Sierra Nevada mountain range is about to be blasted by a multi-day blizzard that begins Thursday night and will last until Sunday. At the peak of the storm, some locations — like ...

Since Jan. 1, the Sierra Nevada has been in a holding pattern of perpetual sun, with no sign of a storm in the forecast. “Extreme shifts between dry and wet conditions are continuing this ...

“The Sierra Nevada red fox is a vanishing emblem of remote Sierra wilderness and a harbinger of climate change,” said Jeff Miller, a senior conservation advocate at the Center. “Endangered Species Act ...

Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by. Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric ...

Getting through the Sierra Nevada would require fortitude ... He brought nitroglycerin, which he mixed on location. The compound allowed for shallower holes of narrow width, but its blasts ...