Life in Hot Water
As another strong El Niño exits the Pacific, researchers look to marine life to tell us what’s happening.
Author Archives: Mary Ellen Hannibal
Mary Ellen Hannibal is an award-winning environmental journalist and the author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction.
A Last-Chance Plan to Save the Monarchs
A small group of scientists hopes a last-chance effort can save the western monarch butterfly, like it did for the California condor.
Tree Detectives
The Northern California black walnut led scientists into a genetic mystery: is this a rare tree, or a common one?
The New Naturalists
There's a resurgence in exploring and documenting nature worldwide
On the Hunt for Mount Tam’s Two Known Badgers
Camera traps show there are at least two badgers living around Mount Tam. Writer Mary Ellen Hannibal goes looking for them.
Bay Nature Founder and Publisher David Loeb Hits the Trail
Bay Nature founder David Loeb is leaving the magazine to spend more time exploring nature. He talks to Mary Ellen Hannibal about the change.
Stanford Paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly Takes on the Future
Stanford University paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly, an advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the new faculty director of the Jasper Ridge Ecological Reserve, looks into the deep past to unlock the...
Rekindling The Old Ways
The Amah Mutsun work to recover traditional ecological knowledge.
New Paradigms for Stewardship
In 2005, the tribal elders of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band came to Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez and reminded him that California Indians have a responsibility to steward Creation. Lopez...
TBC3: Wrestling Climate Change to the Ground
It’s not “news” to Bay Nature readers that climate change is in the process of giving a serious thwack to living systems. But what’s less well understood is how plants...
