
For Palo Alto-based Environmental Volunteers, personal exploration of nature is what it’s all about. By providing school kids with hands-on experiences of nature, Environmental Volunteers works to instill a love of the natural world and an interest in protecting it from an early age. The organization’s executive director Allen Berkowitz spoke with me last week…

He’s big, he’s tall and he’s an obsessive birder. WhyTed Eliot can’t get birds out of his head.

What could have been at Devil’s Slide makes you appreciate the tunnels that came to be.

Closed visitors centers, fewer programs, brushy trails and dirtier bathrooms — Washington’s deficit battles will hurt the Bay Area’s national parklands this summer.

Looking to nature for signs of spring is a beloved sport among Bay Area wildlife enthusiasts. What are you noticing out there?

Clear Lake algae problems persist, but a new effort aims to use satellite imagery to track pollution and find solutions.