An Artist Features the Bay’s “Transitional” Spaces
In 1989 work began on the San Francisco Bay Trail, a planned 500-mile circumnavigation of the entire Bay, from San José to San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge to...
Science and Nature
A New Chapter in the Fight for Point Molate
Last March, Richmond officials announced that they’d chosen SunCal to develop a housing and renovation project on Point Molate, a small headland just north of the Richmond Bridge. The project...
There’s a Mole That Only Lives on Angel Island?
S.I. insularis lives only on an island in the middle of the Bay.
Global Warming is “Just One of the Facts of Children’s Lives,” A Q&A with Ivy + Bean Author Annie Barrows
Children's author Annie Barrows talks with Bay Nature about her second grade heroines tackling climate change for the science fair.
Surf Scoter Decline, Interrupted
Surf scoters showed up in the Bay in astonishing numbers in winter 2019, pausing a three-decade decline and puzzling scientists
How People Saved the Seabirds of the California Current
It wasn’t until the federal government took away several of my favorite fisheries, and access to my favorite spots, that I fully comprehended what I had previously taken for granted...
Meet A Beach Worm That Builds Sand Castles
Phragmatopoma californica breathes over its entire body, poops from near its mouth, and reproduces with other worms despite living inside a tube.
Are Fox Squirrels Replacing Gray Squirrels in California?
A reader notices more fox squirrels and less native western grays.
Climate Solutions Already Exist in Nature, a Reminder
California wants to go carbon negative. But even policymakers tend to overlook the best way to get there.
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