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 small land crustacean has lived on the beach at Adams Point for a century. It's never been seen elsewhere in the world. It's definitely not an Oakland native. Now...
Hardly anyone knew about the plant called sea-blite when it lived on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. No one noticed when it disappeared. Now, thirty years after it...
Sea snails flee from predators. A new research paper suggests that ocean acidification impairs that ability.
The Livermore tarweed is indistinct, hairy, and smelly. It is also exceedingly rare and in imminent danger.
The focus on 2015's record heat conceals a larger truth: cool years are increasingly unlikely.
Scientists still aren't sure what to make of what's happened in the Pacific Ocean this year.
The Pacific Ocean is the hottest we've ever seen it. What that means -- or doesn't -- for the coming El Niño.
Climate scientist Daniel Swain runs the California Weather Blog, a must-read for weather nerds. He's most famous, though, for something he did almost as an afterthought: He’s the one who...
A young sea otter that had spent the last several weeks living in Richardson Bay died over the weekend.
The endangered Mission blue butterfly flies again on Twin Peaks, thanks to a dedicated six-year transplant effort that might be in its last year.
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