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Fifty years ago, San José State students buried a car to symbolize the end of the oil era and the first Earth Day.
Remembering the Survival Faire, Earth Day’s Predecesor
March 24, 2020 •
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In ‘These Lines Are Living,’ Artists Engage With the Changing Shoreline
March 24, 2020 •
Can site-specific dance and other forms of art help us more deeply grasp the reality of our changing shorelines?
See a Badger Away from Home
March 12, 2020 •
It’s uncommon to see badgers in the Bay Area, even on camera traps.
You Aren’t Likely to See a Bobcat, But They’re Around
March 4, 2020 •
Bobcats seem common to the Bay Area, but they like to hide from people.
It’s a Dry Heat
February 27, 2020 •
What happens in an always warm world when it doesn’t rain for an unusual amount of time?
The Smallest Stars Have Gone Out
February 11, 2020 •
More than 20 species of sea star suffered in a disease outbreak that started in 2013. But in many places in the Bay Area, one small star hasn’t returned.
How Do Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injury?
January 31, 2020 •
Woodpeckers have the unusual ability to use their beaks to hammer into the trunks of trees to make holes to extract insects and sap. Even more impressive they do this without hurting themselves.
A New Alpha Coyote Takes Over in San Francisco’s Presidio
January 24, 2020 •
After a ferocious battle, the new coyote pair stuck around and the old one had gone.
With No Sign of Monarch Rebound, Butterfly Experts and Enthusiasts Meet and Plan
January 16, 2020 •
Most everyone wants to save the monarch butterflies. But it turns out that when you put a bunch of lepidopterists, land managers, gardeners, and butterfly enthusiasts in one room — in a blaze of monarch T-shirts, monarch scarves, monarch earrings, … Read more
Mount Diablo, a Story of Place
January 10, 2020 •
This is an excerpt from photographer and longtime Bay Nature contributor Stephen Joseph’s new book, Mount Diablo, A Story of Place and Inspiration. The book consists of hundreds of Joseph’s photographs, taken over three years on the mountain, and features essays by local conservation leaders.