News from around the conservation world of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ten days ago the state set new heat records and brush fires broke out. Burn areas in the Santa Cruz Mountains rekindled. Then, over the last three days, a 2,000-mile-long filament of water in the sky burst over the areas that last week sat brown and smoking.
Huge crowds are harvesting mussels and other invertebrates. Could this damage the much-beloved reef?
Its face might have inspired the monster Alien Queen. Phronima lives like it.
After dipping below its potential "extinction threshold," the beloved butterfly population crashed again in 2020.
On October 7 California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state to create a new California Biodiversity Collaborative and conserve 30 percent of its land and coastal waters by 2030. Conservationists have celebrated the enshrinement of biodiversity preservation among the state’s … Read more
Fewer human visitors this spring and summer allowed snowy plovers to relax on California beaches.
Pandemic, civil rights protests, fires, election, and oh yes, possibly the second driest calendar year on record.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the … Read more
Is commercial agriculture part of Point Reyes National Seashore's essential character?
San Francisco records back-to-back fully dry Octobers for the second time in 170 years.
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