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.
Bodega Marine Reserve research coordinator Jackie Sones has worked in or walked on the rocky shores of the North Coast almost every day for the last 15 years. But while she was surveying the reserve for sea stars in mid-June, … Read more
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 Sciences, now offers instant identifications through the camera view on … Read more
Witnessing a changed world from the rocky shores of Monterey Bay
Children's author Annie Barrows talks with Bay Nature about her second grade heroines tackling climate change for the science fair.
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 about what he calls when “truth and justice faced money … Read more
As technology and seafloor maps improve, a new picture of California's undersea life emerges
A number of sensational new papers warn of a global insect die-off. Has the apocalypse arrived in Northern California?
Scientists sound the alarm about free-falling insect populations. What can you do about it?
Liam O'Brien went from Broadway actor to butterfly observer ... and then some.
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, it now exists only in isolated pockets in the Bay … Read more
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