Climate change and industrial agriculture have decimated the western monarch butterfly’s crucial food source, threatening the ...

The western monarch migration occurs over multiple generations ... The largest overwintering clusters this winter were observed in Santa Cruz County, with top mid-season counts at Lighthouse ...

"Imagine the lightness of a butterfly ... "Monarch Waystations;" 50,000 waystations have been planted so far. It's estimated fewer than 20% of the monarchs that head out on this miraculous ...

A Santa Cruz Metro driver keeps her eyes on the road as she steers her monarch-butterfly-adorned articulated rig up Heller Drive at UC Santa Cruz. The bus is one of 30 wrapped buses Metro operates ...

Dominic Bracco II Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 139,019-acre sanctuary carved out of the Transvolcanic Belt by the Mexican government in 2008. Dominic Bracco II The epic migration faces ...