It’s a Dry Heat
What happens in an always warm world when it doesn’t rain for an unusual amount of time?
Science and Nature
The Smallest Stars Have Gone Out
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?
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...
A New Alpha Coyote Takes Over in San Francisco’s Presidio
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
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 —...
Mount Diablo, a Story of Place
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...
Dutchman’s Pipe is the Only Pipevine Native to California
Aristolochia californica can be found in Northern and Central California.
Why Do Mushrooms Return to the Same Place?
Do mushrooms require a certain kind of substrate?
Tree Detectives
The Northern California black walnut led scientists into a genetic mystery: is this a rare tree, or a common one?
A River of Ink
See the California works from the most accomplished Chinese painter of the 20th century
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