Sensing Is Becoming
How a rootless parasitic plant blossoms in spring.
Swimming with the Fish
When I plunge into San Francisco Bay in spring, I’m swimming through a cool green fish stew.
The Spring 2026 Issue
Volcano Baby
How the Sutter Buttes turned up, all alone, in the Central Valley.
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Bay Area on Track to Meet Ambitious 50×50 Conservation Goal
“There’s a story behind each and every property.”
Meet a Newly Named Nudibranch With a Unique Approach to Sex
Scientists spotted Doto urak 40 years ago but are just discovering the full glory of its weirdness.
Solving the Mystery of Point Reyes’ Purple Waves
Meet the wildly complex, lilac-hued squishy that has been arriving in droves in our coastal waters.
IN SEASON IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Meet the Scientist Who Has Discovered More Than 1,000 Species of Sea Slug
Terry Gosliner, a curator at the California Academy of Sciences, looks through nudibranchs to see the world.
Ticked Off
Ticks can be trouble, yet you can’t help but admire their toughness as they cling to vegetation waiting for a meal to come within arm’s length. Fortunately for us, some of those meals come from western fence lizards, whose blood neutralizes the pathogen that causes Lyme disease. Now that’s a…
Staff picks
Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch
Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.
The Coyotes Arrived. Now, They’re Changing Angel Island.
Deer and raccoons that once fearlessly roamed the island have become prey.
Postcards from Pescadero
True, there was no e-mail, snail mail, or even Pony Express, but somehow postcards from intrepid explorers of the San Mateo coast in days of yore have reached our mailbox. Take a unique trip through time and discover how the beach and marsh at Pescadero came to be the treasures we love to visit today.
San Pablo Bay Restoration Means New Kayaking Destinations
A kayaker explores the newly restored and now-open tidal marsh at Cullinan Ranch in the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
