An Update to the App to Identify (Almost) Anything (Almost) Anywhere
If you ever wander around wanting to know the names of plants and animals around you, Seek, a newly rebuilt app from the iNaturalist team at the California Academy of...
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.
A Tidepool in Time
Witnessing a changed world from the rocky shores of Monterey Bay
Global Warming is “Just One of the Facts of Children’s Lives,” A Q&A with Ivy + Bean Author Annie Barrows
Children's author Annie Barrows talks with Bay Nature about her second grade heroines tackling climate change for the science fair.
Tech Entrepreneur-Turned-Environmentalist’s Commencement Speech: Truth and Justice, Money and Power
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former California Coastal Commissioner (from 2006-2013) Steve Blank will give the commencement speech at the UC Santa Cruz Rachel Carson College on June 15, with stories...
Scientists Discover a New Coral Species Off San Francisco, and There Might be More
As technology and seafloor maps improve, a new picture of California's undersea life emerges
The Importance of Having Insects
A number of sensational new papers warn of a global insect die-off. Has the apocalypse arrived in Northern California?
What Do You Do About the Insect Apocalypse?
Scientists sound the alarm about free-falling insect populations. What can you do about it?
Meet a Butterfly Illustrator and His Three-Year Project to Paint the Gossamer Wings
Liam O'Brien went from Broadway actor to butterfly observer ... and then some.
Letter from the Bay Nature Editors: Another Kind of Ecosystem
There’s a Bay Area ecosystem that’s never been mentioned in the pages of Bay Nature. It is small and easy to overlook, and after several decades of a changing climate,...
How the Government Shutdown is Bringing Out the Best in (most) People in Bay Area National Parks and Public Lands
The shutdown has resulted in messy parks. But in every crisis there's an opportunity.
