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The Ocean

Review of The Pacific Warm Blob Sequel: Not Yet a Phenomena like the Original

by Eric Simons September 12, 2019December 5, 2025

The Pacific is warmer than usual, again.

The Ocean

California’s Early June Heat Wave Cooked Coastal Mussels in Place

by Eric Simons June 26, 2019December 5, 2025

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

Botany

An Update to the App to Identify (Almost) Anything (Almost) Anywhere

by Eric Simons June 24, 2019July 8, 2019

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

The Bay

Surf Scoter Decline, Interrupted

by Brittany Patterson June 17, 2019December 1, 2020

Surf scoters showed up in the Bay in astonishing numbers in winter 2019, pausing a three-decade decline and puzzling scientists

The Ocean

Scientists Discover a New Coral Species Off San Francisco, and There Might be More

by Eric Simons May 16, 2019December 5, 2025

As technology and seafloor maps improve, a new picture of California’s undersea life emerges

Wildlife

The Importance of Having Insects

by Eric Simons May 1, 2019

A number of sensational new papers warn of a global insect die-off. Has the apocalypse arrived in Northern California?

Urban Nature

Ospreys’ Recovery From Pollution and Shooting is a Global Conservation Success Story

by Alan Poole February 26, 2019December 5, 2025

Ospreys have made a spectacular recovery from chemical pollution, guns and traps, thanks to many dedicated conservationists and an amazing ability to thrive in close quarters with humans.