The Livermore tarweed is indistinct, hairy, and smelly. It is also exceedingly rare and in imminent danger.
The Livermore Tarweed Lives Happily Ever After
March 14, 2016 •
Eric Simons
Eric Simons is the digital editor at Bay Nature and author of The Secret Lives of Sports Fans and Darwin Slept Here.
El Niño Means It’s Warmer Than Usual. Take Away the El Niño? That’s Warmer Than Usual, Too.
January 26, 2016 •
The focus on 2015’s record heat conceals a larger truth: cool years are increasingly unlikely.
Warm El Niño Water Meets a North Pacific Already Disrupted By The Blob
December 16, 2015 •
Scientists still aren’t sure what to make of what’s happened in the Pacific Ocean this year.
Richardson Bay Sea Otter Likely Died From Parasite, Biotoxin
September 2, 2015 •
The sea otter that spent three weeks in Richardson Bay in late June and early July likely died of a “one-two punch” of domoic acid poisoning and infection from the possum-borne parasite Sarcocystis neurona, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife pathologist says.
Today in El Niño Advice: Don’t Worry About The Blob
September 1, 2015 •
The Pacific Ocean is the hottest we’ve ever seen it. What that means — or doesn’t — for the coming El Niño.
Q&A: San Francisco Public Press Reporter Kevin Stark on Sea Level Rise and Bay Area Preparations
July 30, 2015 •
Reporter Kevin Stark, one of the co-authors on a major new sea level rise project from the San Francisco Public Press, talks about the challenges of thinking about and reporting on sea level rise in the Bay Area.
First Person: Watching the Weather with Daniel Swain
July 20, 2015 •
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 gave the name “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” to the pattern that’s being blamed for our three years of drought.
Richardson Bay Sea Otter, First in San Francisco Bay Since 2011, Dies
July 16, 2015 •
A young sea otter that had spent the last several weeks living in Richardson Bay died over the weekend.
To Save a Park in San Francisco’s Bayview, Advocates Turn to Citizen Science “With a Mission”
June 18, 2015 •
Development could wipe out one of the Bayview’s few open space areas. Nature in the City hopes knowing more about what lives there can stop the construction.
Driving Home the Butterfly
May 18, 2015 •
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.