A Day at the Beach
“A little sea-bathing would set me up forever,” pronounces Mrs Bennet in Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, expressing the desire to spend the...
Life on the Edge: Endangered Species
The least Bell’s vireo, a small songbird most Angelinos have never seen or even heard of, has been in the news lately. This federally listed...
Building Pacific Coast Highway
Bands played, flags waves, dignitaries gave speeches from a bunting-festooned platform, and hundreds of motorists lined up at Sycamore Cove at the western edge of...
The Open Ocean: Life at Sea
The open ocean is a strange place, always shifting, always changing. It begins where coastal waters end, and it covers most of the planet—300 million...
