Even experts sometimes struggle to distinguish western pond turtles from common pond sliders.
Science and Nature
Biodiversity
In Search of the New Trees on the Block
Climate scientists are working out which trees our cities will need.
Summer Issue 2024
Look Here—a Farewell From Our Arts Columnist
“Through their work,” writes Matthew Harrison Tedford, “I saw how art can transform our understanding of the natural world, or our relationship with it.”
Biodiversity
College Student Discovers 11 New Species of Predatory Worms in Bodega Bay
How little we know about the biodiversity of marine invertebrates.
Summer Issue 2024
It’s a Rock Pigeon’s World
Your fact-filled guide to the remarkable feathered urban nature we forget to wonder about.
Conservation
Don’t Make Them Cross the Road
Once a tough sell, wildlife crossings are now proliferating in the Bay Area.
Summer Issue 2024
Black Bears Move Into the North Bay
For the first time
in history, black bears are occupying this ecological niche once filled by grizzlies.
The Bay
California May List Ancient, Iconic White Sturgeon as Threatened
They’ve survived 200 million years without changing. Now, “changes to the Bay-Delta system and changes to our climate are happening too quickly for them,” says a UC Davis scientist.
Summer Issue 2024
Elder Statesberry
“We don’t have a California state shrub yet, but the blue elderberry ought to be a top contender,” writes Alison S. Pollack. “It’s an overachiever.”
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