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The next time you sit at the shore, ponder the physics crashing before you.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Making Waves
November 19, 2024 •
Science & Nature
Art & Design | Botany | Climate Change | El Niño | Fire | Fungi | Geology | History | The Bay | The Ocean | Urban Nature | Water | Weather | Wildlife
What Happens to the ‘Wild Billions’ Under Trump?
November 14, 2024 •
David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and what might happen to the money that remains.
AIs Are Beginning to Illuminate the Deep Sea
November 12, 2024 •
Scientists are racing to understand deep sea ecosystems before human activity transforms them forever.
Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch
November 7, 2024 •
Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.
Scientists Hatch a Big Collab to Aid Pacific Coast
November 7, 2024 •
Like a Pacific octopus, this project has a lot of tentacles. It also has very big ambitions.
A Hazardous Waste Site Becomes ‘San Francisco’s Next Great Park’
October 29, 2024 •
After almost 150 years, a piece of San Francisco’s last remaining natural shoreline in Bayview-Hunters Point is now accessible to the public. First, it had to be cleaned up.
Jason, the Argonauts, and Four Thousand Satellite Buoys
October 29, 2024 •
Meet the Argo floats, thousands of small buoys across the world’s oceans that send us intel on sea conditions. And meet the other Argo.
Hustle and Flow
October 22, 2024 •
The Pacific mole crab thrives in tumult.
Ecologist Erica Spotswood Says Cities Can Be Wildlife Hotspots, Too
October 21, 2024 •
The urban ecologist discusses growing cities that can support species diversity, from backyards to tech campuses. But that may come with making tough choices.
What’s in Prop. 4, the $10B Climate Bond on the Ballot
October 17, 2024 •
Climate change is already costing us a bundle. Supporters say the measure will save money in the long run. Opponents call it a ‘hodgepodge.’