California lawmakers struck a deal to divert $125 million in climate funding to buy the former Golden Gate Fields track and turn it into a park. Gov. Gavin Newsom supports the project.
Locals have dubbed one otter “Birdadette.” How common is this behavior?
A bill to exempt the proposed shipyard from environmental analysis is doing the time warp again.
For most lakes and rivers, the state’s official map of fecal bacterial contamination shows data that’s more than a year old.
This article first appeared on High Country News and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. When I was 9 years old, I was glued to a documentary series on PBS called Eyes on the Prize, … Read more
Catching the view through the telescopes, and a communal vibe, at the monthly stargazing meetup at Rush Ranch in Solano County.
Experts are bracing for big storm surges and king tides, flooding, and a host of impacts on wildlife and ecosystems. But more rainfall isn’t guaranteed, actually.
‘We basically had all of the banned words,’ one environmental equity researcher says. So they got scrappy.
Here’s one job that AI probably won’t steal.
In the aftermath of a psychedelic mushroom trip, Baykeeper founder Michael Herz and Kate Josephs decided to upend their lives, move aboard a boat in the East Bay, and start producing a podcast on the history of the San Francisco Bay.
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