Tune in to our virtual 2021 Local Hero Awards on April 11 & 13! Hear from each of this year’s heroes about their inspiring work connecting people with nature.
When people say that trees “talk” to each other, that’s a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of 90 percent of all plants.
Rare and once thought extinct, the dawn redwood is an ancient relative of the more familiar coast redwood.
The plants that grow on this 2,400-acre island amid a sea of city—including these four endemic manzanita species—help make San Bruno Mountain a world biological hotspot.
With five to seven leaves resembling outstretched fingers on the palm of a hand, the blackberry Rubus armeniacus grows from curved, blood-red stalks resembling veins. Sonoma County horticulturalist Luther Burbank acquired the seeds in 1885 from a trader in India, … Read more
Should we worry about the Monterey pine going extinct?
Try tracking a single iris over time.
At a time when development is paving over habitat and climate change is transforming ecosystems at an unprecedented pace, California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot says the state has a moral imperative to focus on biodiversity.
There’s a certain predictable expression that frequently settles on the face of the friend or family member I’m talking to when I say the word “biodiversity.” I’d call it tolerantly bored.
Aristolochia californica can be found in Northern and Central California.
The Northern California black walnut led scientists into a genetic mystery: is this a rare tree, or a common one?
