Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Here are some of our staff’s favorite signs of winter in the Bay Area.
The harmful algae bloom that sickened marine mammals and caused the closure of California’s crab fishery this winter is slowly dissipating, while researchers are still trying to understand what caused it to happen.
Scientists still aren’t sure what to make of what’s happened in the Pacific Ocean this year.
In the heart of Silicon Valley, the most reliable technology we have for monitoring West Nile virus is a bird domesticated in the Stone Age.
A San Francisco reader wonders about the bright orange-red butterfly he recently spotted in his backyard.
Marine ecologists have long been alarmed at the potentially dangerous summertime growth of the single-celled algae Pseudo-nitzschia — but there are still significant blind spots in our knowledge and research funding has been scarce.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
