Why are so many jellyfish washing up in the San Francisco Bay this spring?
Why Did So Many Jellyfish Wash Onto Bay Beaches This Spring?
May 29, 2018 •
The Bay
The San Francisco Bay is our region's dominant geographic feature.
Charismatic Sea Ducks Seem to be Disappearing, But It’s Hard to Say Why
March 30, 2018 •
Are surf scoters disappearing from the San Francisco Bay? Or from the world?
Ten Years After the Spill, a Look at Where the Cosco Busan Settlement Funding Went
November 7, 2017 •
Following the Cosco Busan spill in 2007, funding was set aside for restoration and recreation. A look at where it’s been spent so far.
Can the Bay Area Design Its Way Out Of Sea Level Rise?
October 30, 2017 •
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.
Hunt for San Francisco Bay Shark Killer Zeroes in on a Suspect
August 14, 2017 •
A protozoan pathogen appears to have killed thousands of sharks, rays and fish in the San Francisco Bay this spring.
Summer Algal Bloom and Aquatic Grass Growth Forces Boats Off the Water in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park
July 27, 2017 •
A yellow-brown blanket covers the Berkeley Aquatic Park lagoon.
Sharks Are Dying By the Hundreds in San Francisco Bay
May 2, 2017 •
Leopard sharks and bat rays are dying by the hundreds and washing ashore all around the Bay. A pathologist at the California Department Fish and Wildlife thinks he may know why.
Naturalist’s Notebook: They Lowered the Level of San Mateo’s Marina Lagoon and Found … These Things
April 4, 2017 •
Australian tube worms are now widespread in brackish waters of the San Francisco Bay.
The Story of the San Francisco Bay: It’s Wild Still
January 1, 2017 •
It’s bursting with fish, birds, marine mammals — and people. How did so many come to see the Bay as lifeless?
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.