
If you ever wander around wanting to know the names of plants and animals around you, Seek, a newly rebuilt app from the iNaturalist team at the California Academy of Sciences, now offers instant identifications through the camera view on a phone. Point your phone’s camera at something alive and Seek will name it at…

Photographer Jonno Rattman spent a week photographing the Central Valley for Bay Nature’s summer 2019 cover story, “A Time of Reckoning”. He was struck, as he traveled, by the near total absence of people — it was, he says, one of the brightest, emptiest landscapes he’s ever worked in. Reckoning in the Central Valley “Reckoning…

Children’s author Annie Barrows talks with Bay Nature about her second grade heroines tackling climate change for the science fair.

The California Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw so-called “second generation” anticoagulant rodenticides.

Surf scoters showed up in the Bay in astonishing numbers in winter 2019, pausing a three-decade decline and puzzling scientists

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former California Coastal Commissioner (from 2006-2013) Steve Blank will give the commencement speech at the UC Santa Cruz Rachel Carson College on June 15, with stories about what he calls when “truth and justice faced money and power.” An excerpt from the speech is below. This Q&A about the speech and…