Can the Bay Area Design Its Way Out Of Sea Level Rise?
Bay Area scientists and planners are hoping to shake loose some new solutions to rising seas by inviting in some of the best minds of the design world.
Climate Change
A Tale of Two Buzzwords: Trying to Sustain Our Resilience
How did resilient become the ecological buzzword d'jour?
How Extreme Heat Caught San Francisco By Surprise Over Labor Day Weekend
Forecasters thought it would be hot in San Francisco over Labor Day -- meaning, you know, in the high 80s. Instead it was 106. What happened?
Meet the Scientist Who Has Discovered More Than 1,000 Species of Sea Slug
Terry Gosliner, a curator at the California Academy of Sciences, looks through nudibranchs to see the world.
Bay Area Scientists Push Back Against Federal Freeze on Meetings
The Department of Interior is forbidding committee meetings, but one prominent California-based partnership of NGOs and resource managers is going to keep talking to one another anyway.
The 2015-2016 El Niño Erased Hundreds of Feet of California’s Beaches
A report from the US Geological Survey shows how the powerful 2016-2016 El Niño reshaped the California coast.
An Atlantic Bird Makes a New Home in California — Maybe Because of Melting Arctic Ice
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
Why would a scientist count a quarter of a million redwood tree rings?
Stanford Paleoecologist Elizabeth Hadly Takes on the Future
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
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.
