Add “Dry” to the List of 2020 Descriptors
Pandemic, civil rights protests, fires, election, and oh yes, possibly the second driest calendar year on record.
Author Archives: Eric Simons
Eric Simons is a former digital editor at Bay Nature. He is author of The Secret Lives of Sports Fans and Darwin Slept Here, and is coauthor, with Tessa Hill, of At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans.
After Another Dry October, Have Water Worries Returned?
San Francisco records back-to-back fully dry Octobers for the second time in 170 years.
Look Up
This fall and winter offer opportunities to see many of the most beloved astronomical phenomena, if you just look up.
A Salmon Shark Strands Under the Orange Sky
A North Bay birder on a field trip to the coast on September 9 found a four-foot salmon shark washed up dead at Doran Beach, in Bodega Bay. It’s the...
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Northern California State Beaches, But Not Others, Limiting Access for Holiday Weekend [Updated]
While county and national parks remain open, the state is restricting access at its Northern California beaches
A Model For Dismantling Environmental Racism
Literacy for Environmental Justice has worked with youth and nature in San Francisco for two decades.
Did Salmon Always Live in San José?
After an absence of many decades, Chinook salmon swim up the Guadalupe River in San José most winters. The fish look for places to lay eggs and often find them....
Lord of the Flies
Bored at home? Learn how to train common flies to ride on your finger like miniature falcons.
A “Possible Record” Number of Blue Whales Visit the Farallones
After a foggy few weeks at the Farallon Islands, 25 miles west of San Francisco, Saturday turned clear. The five biologists who have been living and working on Southeast Farallon...
Q&A With “Bird Savant” John Robinson on Black Birders Week
A Q&A with Bay Area birder John Robinson about race, access, and birding.
