Price-Tagging Nature
Inside mitigation banking, a multibillion-dollar industry where restoring and preserving rare habitat and species makes big money.
How Would California Forever’s Proposed Solano Shipyard Affect the Environment? Details Are Scant.
The idea is to build newfangled autonomous vessels. Possibly over 1,000 feet long. Possibly as soon as 2028.
Editor’s Letter: Acre by Acre
Consider any single acre of land in the Bay Area today and all the lives it may have lived.
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Newsom Wants Prop 4 Funds for Golden Gate Fields. Some Local Conservationists Have Other Priorities.
“This timeline is moving quicker than anyone imagined,” says an East Bay parks rep.
Could Avocados Be A Transformational Fruit for the Bay Region?
It may be avocado season in the Bay.
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Mud-Starved Wetlands Get a Meal, At Last
With Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, the Bay’s wetlands are finally getting some precious muck. Why have we been dumping it offshore?
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Underneath California Forever
Tech billionaires are fighting for their proposed 400,000-person city in Solano County. At least 21 imperiled species depend on the ecosystems where the new city could be built.
Believing in the Power of Beavers
California’s beavers have been by turns hunted, protected, and neglected—even parachuted away to distant forests. Today, the embattled rodent is finding new appreciation for its ecological work.
Even Ground Squirrels Got In On the Vole Feast Last Summer
For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many voles?
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The Backstory on Pacifica’s Whale Bonanza
Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.
The Rewilding of California’s Parched Central Valley
As SGMA deadlines loom, groundwater sustainability agencies, environmental organizations, and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are scrambling to prepare for a drier future by experimenting with ways to repurpose fallow farmland.
The Presidio’s Miracle Manzanita
A construction site along one of San Francisco’s busiest thoroughfares hardly seems like a good spot to find one of our region’s rarest plants. But that’s just where a passing biologist saw a manzanita thought extinct for decades. And now a whole lot of people are trying to make sure this lone survivor isn’t the…
The Tree That’s Rare, Endangered and Common
Should we worry about the Monterey pine going extinct?
