Land of the Salamander
North America has more kinds of salamanders--the tailed, mostly four-legged amphibians--than any other continent. Your backyard is probably full of them right now!
Science and Nature
The Bay Area’s top 10 environmental news of 2012
The Bay Area has had its share of interesting environmental stories in 2012. Here's our pick of some of our favorites.
Celebrate the New Year with Canopus
Put yourself in just the right spot at midnight on New Year's Eve and you may be able to see the second brightest star in the sky that's normally invisible...
Painting the Delta, from “frankenanimals” to finished artwork
When we decided to commission an original illustration for our January feature about Big Break Regional Shoreline, I did what I often do in these situations: I contacted Ann Caudle,...
Welcoming in California’s new marine parks
Anyone who loves the California coast -- that would be everyone, right? -- should be toasting this week's big news.
Trees snag Oakland’s first major creek daylighting project
A 250-foot stretch of Sausal Creek would see the light of day. But Oakland's plans to remove 84 trees, many of them coast redwoods, has raised an uproar among Dimond...
At Oakland’s Christmas Bird Count, 177 species in 177-square miles
177 species was a normal year's count at Audubon Society's 2012 Christmas Bird Count in Oakland. But there were nevertheless some pleasant surprises: hermit warblers, a snow goose and a...
Wetlands preserve way of life in South Bay town
On the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, the Mexican-American community in the tiny hamlet of Alviso is realizing that wetlands may be needed to keep the sea at...
Owl, a shuttle and Treasure Island
The male in pair of great-horned owls who've long nested in Glen Park died of rat poison, and other Bay Area nature news.
Alligator keeper and salamander seeker
When we put out the call for photos to go along with our forthcoming salamander feature by David Rains Wallace, I wasn’t sure what to expect. How many local salamander...
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