Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
April is the peak month for gray whales passing by the San Francisco Bay Area, drawing spectators to the coast to scan the ocean’s surface for a heart-shaped spout or the flick of a gray-speckled tail. But while the abundance of whales in the Bay Area this time of year increases your chances of seeing…
Around the American West, wildfires are increasing in size and frequency. In California, the list of Top-20 records are telling: 15 of the most destructive, nine of the largest, and seven of the deadliest wildfires have occurred since 2015. At the same time, urbanization is bringing communities and wildfires closer together. The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)…
A writer follows Gary Snyder’s ritualized walking meditation of Mt. Tamalpais in search of pandemic relief.
This story originally appeared in bioGraphic, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. Photographs by Sarah Killingsworth Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of the Pacific. It’s a landscape of stark beauty; a patchwork…
Drought returns to California, with a long fire season ahead.
I find myself awakening to the wonder of time — the deep, slow, earth-time of trees, and dirt, and rocks — and to the aching grief of human greed and misunderstanding.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
