Picture a giant Rubik’s cube that costs $6–11 billion to solve. That’s State Route 37.
What to Do When Your Highway Is Slipping Into the Sea
October 9, 2025 •
Finding Bugula
September 24, 2025 •
A colony of hundreds of small animals, whose symbiotic bacteria pumps out human medicine.
The Primacy of Movement
September 24, 2025 •
To block a border, a route, a place to sleep, is an attempt to assert a hierarchy of beings.
An Ocean-to-Bay Hike: San Francisco’s Double Cross Trail
September 24, 2025 •
The companion to the Crosstown inspires with hidden nature and jaw-dropping views.
Swimming in the Bay: Salty Autumn
September 24, 2025 •
Autumn in San Francisco Bay is a halcyon moment between the punishing winds of summer and the frigid swells of winter.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Electrostatic Flight
September 24, 2025 •
How spiders take flight, without any wind to help.
Fall 2025 Almanac: Blond Tarantulas and Beavers
September 24, 2025 •
Life during fall brings with it a little bit of whimsy, the cerulean sky, and a shimmer of promise.
Dorothea Lange, Water Prophet
September 24, 2025 •
Dorothea Lange’s water photography ask: How do we create systems that let us live justly with one another and the earth?
Walking in John Muir’s Footsteps at Alhambra Hills Open Space
September 24, 2025 •
Once slated for homes, now open to hikers
In These Gardens, New Home Lands Grow
September 24, 2025 •
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.