Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area scientists and planners are hoping to shake loose some new solutions to rising seas by inviting in some of the best minds of the design world.
How vulnerable are we to fire and what we can do about it? Fire ecologist Sasha Berleman answers.
Initially, it appears the fires played an ecological role for open spaces and undeveloped lands.
What remains of Sonoma and Napa’s natural landscapes is still unknown as open space personnel attend to human losses.
Moths often get sidelined as the country cousins of butterflies. But they have their own beauty and utility as some of the best pollinators around.
When temperatures crank up, an unusual ecological adaptation begins to play out among our native Monterey pine. We explain why in our latest installment of our reader-funded Ask The Naturalist column.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
