Much of California enjoys a mild Mediterranean climate where the weather typically swings like a pendulum from warm, dry summers to cool, wet winters. Year-to-year, this pendulum can swing with...
Nearly a thousand acres of the valley oak savanna, wetlands, and agricultural land that once dominated Silicon Valley will be protected
It’s a tough time to care deeply about the environment and the future of our planet, as you do if you read Bay Nature. The effects of climate change are...
Fires are spreading into communities and increasingly affecting large numbers of Californians, sometimes repeatedly.
Meet the flies that lay their eggs in a bee's body.
Many people generally think of sea stars as slow, almost immobile animals, living in tidepools or in along the shoreline, feeding slowly on clams and mussels. So here’s something you...
Opossums are having a bit of a moment thanks to the internet. America’s only marsupial – the Virginia opossum Didelphis virginiana — is what many consider unlovely. Gray fur and...
An ecological history of a massive ranch for sale in the Bay Area.
This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. When a major new study on North American bird populations appeared in the journal Science last week, it included...
On Friday, August 30, Bay Nature lost a good friend and the Bay Area lost a great teacher of environmental science. Professor Lester Rowntree passed away at his home in...
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
