Local Heroes 2025: Annie Burke, Conservation Action
Annie Burke is connecting conservation work across the Bay.
Author Archives: Tanvi Dutta Gupta
Tanvi is a senior reporting fellow with Bay Nature. Her writing and reporting has appeared across High Country News, Science Magazine, and Atlas Obscura, in addition to underground murals and her mother's Facebook page. She grew up across Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and India before moving to California, where she studied ecology at Stanford University. She is a big fan of long runs and food.
A New Story for Sperm Whales
Nearly 175 years after Moby-Dick, pioneering research from Monterey Canyon and beyond is transforming how we understand the life of an enigmatic ocean legend.
With Trump’s War on DEI, Local Environmental Organizations Rethink Diversity Commitments
Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.
How Trump’s Attack on Environmental Programs Is Already Affecting Local Conservation Work
Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.”
Paddling the Cosumnes River Preserve, a Lush Refuge in the Central Valley
Restoration dollars from the IRA mark the latest chapter in stewardship across the Cosumnes River watershed, where sandhill cranes flock.
Large-Scale Solar Is Coming to Tiger Salamander Country
Even key critics of Aramis, in the North Livermore Valley, say its habitat conservation plan is not terrible.
How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era
They're counting their blessings—like Prop. 4's $10 billion for climate adaptation in California, and money that can’t be unspent.
What Happens to the ‘Wild Billions’ Under Trump?
David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and what might happen to the money that remains.
Scientists Hatch a Big Collab to Aid Pacific Coast
Like a Pacific octopus, this project has a lot of tentacles. It also has very big ambitions.
The Backstory on Pacifica’s Whale Bonanza
Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.
