Your Friday Bay Area nature news roundup:
- Save Mount Diablo purchases 1,080 acre Curry Canyon Ranch property as open space. [Contra Costa Times]
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will undertake a study to look at the impact of pesticides on rare CA frogs. [Center for Biological Diveristy blog]
- Bay Area commits to 80 percent greenhouse gas reduction. [Grist]
- Red tide lingers, bringing allergies and fishy stench near Santa Cruz beaches. [Santa Cruz Sentinel]
- Widespread starfish deaths reported on West Coast. [SF Gate]
- For fish and rice to thrive in Yolo Bypass, ‘just add water.’ [phys.org]
- NOAA announce floating debris field from Japan’s tsunami headed for U.S. waters, with some invasive critters in tow. [Discover]
- Oakland organization helps underserved communities build edible gardens. [Contra Costa Times]
- Exploratorium to open ‘community science center’ in Los Altos. [San Francisco Business Times]
- John Muir’s dying 130-year-old giant sequoia has been successfully cloned. [Contra Costa Times/Associated Press]
- Sonoma Clean Power moving ahead on contract. [The Press Democrat]
- Greenpeace ship, docked in San Francisco, to hold vigil for Arctic activists imprisoned in Russia. [Oakland Tribune]
