Perched on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, the residential Monte Sereno in California is a bedroom community that houses some of the brightest minds in the world. The entire community is residential, with no commercial activity. Residents use the retail facilities in nearby Saratoga and Los Gatos...
Water is chronicallyscarcein southern California and the desert regions, but excesses of rain and snowmelt cause winter flooding along the rivers of the northern coast. Complex systems of dams and aqueducts transport water from north to south, but not without the protests of those who regard the...
In the northwest the Olympic Peninsula borders the Pacific Ocean south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Dense rainforests extend along the western slopes of the rugged Olympic Mountains, which rise to 7,965 feet (2,428 metres) on Mount Olympus. The Willapa Hills parallel the coast from Grays...
city in the middle of the first millennium; Nineveh in Assyria; Persepolis in the Achaemenid state; Jerusalem; and the cities of Phoenicia, Tyre and Sidon [Saida], which carried on extensive trade on the Mediterranean Sea and founded colonies along its coast, including Carthage in North Africa...
Such urban nuclei are Velez-Málaga, Mijas, Fuengirola, Benalmadena and Torremolinos, which seem closer to the profile of medium-sized cities linked to the coast than to medium-sized metropolitan nuclei, a completely different case from the rest of large cities. 3.2. Coastal Medium-Sized Cities...
Fromnatural wonderstoimpressive architectureandincredibly diverse restaurants, we've included cities that span coast to coast.New York,Los Angeles, and San Francisco are iconic for a reason and always a must-visit. If you're looking for something with some flare and spice, head toLas VegasorMia...
Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has pr...
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"As we get to these first couple weeks of June, a lot of places are really starting to see those temperatures escalate," Todd Shoemake, of the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, told the Associated Press on Monday. "Southern California, southern Nevada, southweste...