A report from the US Geological Survey shows how the powerful 2016-2016 El Niño reshaped the California coast.
Climate Change
Climate change is dramatically altering the San Francisco Bay Area's ecosystems and raising profound questions among conservationists about how to help species best adapt to new conditions.
An Atlantic Bird Makes a New Home in California — Maybe Because of Melting Arctic Ice
March 28, 2017 •
Meet Morris the gannet, who’s not supposed to be here but seems to have made a home of it.
A Story About Once and Future California, Written in the Rings of Redwoods
February 8, 2017 •
Why would a scientist count a quarter of a million redwood tree rings?
Stanford Paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly Takes on the Future
November 28, 2016 •
Stanford University paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly, an advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the new faculty director of the Jasper Ridge Ecological Reserve, looks into the deep past to unlock the future.
An Emissary of the Bay’s Forgotten Beaches
July 1, 2016 •
Hardly anyone knew about the plant called sea-blite when it lived on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. No one noticed when it disappeared. Now, thirty years after it went locally extinct, a freelance coastal ecologist sets out on an unlikely mission to bring it back.
A Sea Snail’s Ability to Flee From Predators Is Impaired By More Acidic Water, New Paper Suggests
July 1, 2016 •
Sea snails flee from predators. A new research paper suggests that ocean acidification impairs that ability.
How Tree ‘Heart Attacks’ Threaten the West’s Dry Forests
July 1, 2016 •
What causes a drought-stressed tree to die?
Oro Loma: Can Wastewater Save the Bay from Sea Level Rise?
April 21, 2016 •
An experimental restoration project comes alive in the East Bay.
Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
March 9, 2016 •
Noted environmental author Mary Ellen Hannibal was moved to write about large-scale efforts to protect the planet after watching conservation scientists weep as they shared their fears.
What Lurks Beneath
February 8, 2016 •
A small research team sets out in the search for a potential ocean killer. But in this unusual year, nature is not cooperating with her interrogators.