December 06, 2012 by Emilie Raguso
The discovery of a 24-inch fish, believed to be a Chinook salmon, in a creek along Berkeley’s northern border with Albany, has inspired a ripple of excitement in the community.
December 05, 2012 by Samantha Juda
The Bay Area’s No. 1 mercury polluter, the Lehigh cement plant in Cupertino, is cleaning its business after the region’s air district passed the strongest air rules in the nation.
December 05, 2012 by Claire Schoen
Some farmers stake their livelihood on faith that the levees holding back rising seas will hold strong. VIDEO.
November 27, 2012 by Alison Hawkes
The San Pedro Headlands offers up the ultimate solution in “sustainable” Christmas trees — restoring coastal scrubland by removing Monterey pine. My tree was a little short of perfect, but one to remember. (Alison Hawkes)
November 26, 2012 by Heather Mack
“Marine vomit” can be as vile as it sounds. The invasive marine invertebrate is fueling the debate about the future of Drakes Estero in time for this week’s ruling on oyster farming.
November 21, 2012 by Courtney Quirin
It’s a wild turkey world out there, as the growing population of Meleagris gallopavo shows. California is trying to tamp down the size of this gobbling, introduced species.
November 21, 2012 by Jackson Karlenzig
Thanksgiving time marks the start of one of the most exciting sustainable, local food events of the year: Dungeness crab season.
November 19, 2012 by Claire Schoen
The Bay Area has important choices to make about how it will adapt to the reality of sea level rise. VIDEO.
November 15, 2012 by Alison Hawkes
Scientists report new findings on how a 750-legged millipede from the Bay Area – the leggiest animal on Earth — may have evolved all those legs to thrive in its unique niche under sandstone rocks in moist oak woodlands.
November 15, 2012 by Aleta George
The first thing we heard was the exhalation of the animal,” says marine ecologist Kirsten Lindquist about the blue whale …
November 13, 2012 by Aleta George
Bob Berner, the founding director of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, is retiring at the end of 2012, but not before protecting fully half of West Marin’s farmland.
November 13, 2012 by Courtney Quirin
The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito has treated six gunshot victims so far this year, including Whirlybird, a sea lion. Which raises the disturbing question. Who is shooting marine mammals and why?
November 12, 2012 by Claire Schoen
Climate disruption is causing higher tides and storm surges. The result: more and more flooding for cities like San Francisco.
November 07, 2012 by Aleta George
San Franciscans voted in a landslide against an effort to study the removal of Hetch Hetchy. A few dozen miles south, at Stanford, another campaign aims to remove the much smaller Searsville Dam, which blocks steelhead spawning while also creating wetland habitat.
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