Taking the Long View for the Summer
In May, my family and I headed to Sycamore Grove Park near Livermore for a long stroll on Mother’s Day. Something about the dry heat and native, lazy-limbed sycamore trees...
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A “Possible Record” Number of Blue Whales Visit the Farallones
After a foggy few weeks at the Farallon Islands, 25 miles west of San Francisco, Saturday turned clear. The five biologists who have been living and working on Southeast Farallon...
The Mourning Cloak Butterfly Means Spring in the Bay Area
The mourning cloak butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, is one of the most widely distributed butterflies in the world, ranging across most of the northern hemisphere. In some places like the British...
People Should Physically Distance from Sea Otters, Too
Kayakers and boaters approaching too closely could be leading some sea otters to starve, scientists say.
After Losing Several Key Battles Over Water, Delta Advocates See Hope in the Last Option Remaining: the Law
Is bad news good news for the Bay and Delta's diminishing flows?
A Whale’s Death Shows Us the Way Marine Giants Live
“When a whale washes up it’s kind of like being a doctor on call,” says Moe Flannery, senior collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences. Flannery’s day job means...
The City Nature Challenge, Modified, Returns
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.
Environmental Groups Oppose U.S. Army Corps Plan to Dredge the Bay for Bigger Oil Tankers
Conservation groups say the environmental assessment avoids considering environmental justice or marine life
The Beautiful Geometry of Short-eared Owls
I’m not usually masochistic. But then I spent three months this winter trying to observe extremely elusive short eared owls in a busy park in the inner Bay Area. (I’ll...
Can AI Read Scientific Literature to Help Save Animals Like Otters?
When Kyle Van Houtan, the chief scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, first began publishing research in the 1990s, he had to physically mail a typed manuscript in an envelope...
