It was overcast and threatening rain the morning I wrote this column. The air in the valley was hazy, meaning to contain dust, dirt or other dry particulates. But it had rained the previous night, so ...

Offered a chance for some deep, rich black earth for gardening in a tiny Southeast Alaska village, I asked if there were any black slugs in it. “If you’re going to garden here you have to just get ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved ...