Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Dungeness crabbers finished the season without a single whale entanglement, unlike past years, but they paid a price.
Avian flu is hitting close to home, and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. California condors and a beloved San Jose falcon are the newest victims of this epidemic that is sweeping through domestic and wild bird populations worldwide.
The story of how Earth came to be graced with this meteor shower starts at the birth of the universe, with a dirty snowball.
After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break. Mountain ranges are covered in deep snow, and water reservoirs in many areas are filling up following a series of atmospheric rivers that brought record rain and snowfall to large parts of the region. Many people are looking at the snow…
It’s the first time a cub has ever been successfully reunited with its mom. But some local residents say it shouldn’t have been taken in the first place.
This formidable fungus has been traveling up and down the California coast as a Monterey-cypress groupie. But how does it follow its favorite tree?
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
