Bay Nature Staff Picks of 2024
Butterflies fed with Q-tips, Hollywood moments on the trail, bird battles, beetles, and the Bay Naturiest story of 2024. (It was a competitive field.)
Science and Nature
How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era
They're counting their blessings—like Prop. 4's $10 billion for climate adaptation in California, and money that can’t be unspent.
Evading Development, Point Molate Edges Closer to Becoming a Park
After two decades of grassroots efforts, 82 acres of Richmond parkland are set to open in early 2025. An op-ed by David Helvarg.
Hike, Forage, Read: Nature Ideas for Thanksgiving Week
Some ways to commune with nature this Thanksgiving week, whether outside or from a comfy chair.
The Coyotes Arrived. Now, They’re Changing Angel Island.
Deer and raccoons that once fearlessly roamed the island have become prey.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Making Waves
The next time you sit at the shore, ponder the physics crashing before you.
What Happens to the ‘Wild Billions’ Under Trump?
David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and...
AIs Are Beginning to Illuminate the Deep Sea
Scientists are racing to understand deep sea ecosystems before human activity transforms them forever.
Scientists Hatch a Big Collab to Aid Pacific Coast
Like a Pacific octopus, this project has a lot of tentacles. It also has very big ambitions.
Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch
Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.
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