Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Ferries are a cheap, environmentally friendly way to breathe in some brisk salt air and see the Bay in a new way. Here are five places you can go.
Gosh—is it raining again? When you’d rather stay inside reading about rain than go out and get wet, here’s a pile of stories from our archives.
Storms on the California coast whip up sea foam, especially in winter and spring. Here’s a frothy dollop of the science behind how this stuff forms (it’s kind of a planktonic meringue).
6PPD-quinone comes from a long-used chemical that will be hard to replace in tires. But green infrastructure like “living levees” may help trap it.
This fancy flower is secretive yet brash, and it’s an expert in the art of deceiving bumblebees.
Abnormalities in the ear bones of hatchery-reared delta smelt could challenge efforts to save the endangered fish.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
