A Case for Retreat in the Age of Fire as Dozens of Wildfires Threaten Homes in the West
As fire risk rises, is it time to consider managed retreat? Three environmental design and sustainability experts explore the options.
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A Feather Forecast to Help You Tune Into Fall’s Magnificent Migrations
Up to a half-billion birds migrate across the U.S. each night, cloaked in darkness. BirdCast helps you see what they’re doing.
A Hello from Bay Nature’s Half-Civilized New Digital Editor
I hope that like me, you'll come for the two-headed flatworms, and stay for the satisfying deep-dive journalism about nature and our roles in it.
Keeping Up With the Flyers: Wildlife Tracking Breakthroughs
A fast-growing network of towers is making it way easier and cheaper for researchers to spy on animals worldwide.
A Former National Parks Director’s Guide to Not Wasting Your Precious Greywater
Jonathan Jarvis installed his own laundry-to-landscape system, and with a little elbow grease, you can, too.
Largest Tidal Restoration Project in California Will Make Way for Wildlife & Mitigate Floods
Two landscapes stand divided by the hundred-year-old Yolo Bypass West Levee in Solano County. To the south of the levee’s U shape, canals tangle toward the sprawling Sacramento–San Joaquin River...
Find Bay Area Swimming Spots Free of Harmful Algal Blooms
Harmful algal blooms are increasing in incidence, duration, and toxicity statewide and so are their health impacts on humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.
How Your Beach Photos Are Helping CA Scientists: Snapshot Cal Coast 2022
This year's Snapshot Cal Coast featured 4,083 people logging 46,683 observations of almost 4,000 species into the iNaturalist app from June 13 to July 4.
Modeling the uncertain future of Northern California’s bull kelp forests
For two years, scientists at UC Davis have been modeling a “Field of Dreams” hypothesis about bull kelp to understand what approaches could best help the recovery of the kelp...
The Fight Over Sustainable Transportation in Santa Cruz County
As urban wildlife stakes its claim on the green corridor running through town, the human residents of the county have spent the past two decades arguing over what to do...
