As the California Supreme Court wrote, "CEQA does not require an agency to consider the impact of existing conditions on future project users."
If you look up the Arrowhead Marsh along the Oakland shoreline on Google Maps, the arrowhead shape is striking. If you look closer, you see that the eastern half of...
Cape Horn is a concrete and earth-filled dam on the upper Eel River in Mendocino County. About 140 miles north of San Francisco, the dam was built in 1907 and...
Basking sharks can be over 30 feet long and are characterized by their enormous gill rakers and three-foot tall dorsal fins. But these mysterious, massive, filter-feeding cousins of the great...
Newts carry enough toxin to kill a dozen people. Yet in the Bay Area garter snakes feast on them without harm.
It is now a given that the health of an ecosystem can be measured by the abundance and diversity of the native organisms able to survive and thrive there –...
As the poet Wendell Berry says, “if we do the right things today, we’ll have done all we really can for tomorrow.”
In a famous experiment in the early 1960s, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running computer simulations of weather patterns, trying to see how they changed when he changed...
A year of exceptional drama in the lives of Cal's peregrine falcons continues.
In the last century, the federal government has tried to build its way out of California’s water crisis. The parallel story of the Winnemem Wintu’s displacement is a reminder that...
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