Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
What happens in an always warm world when it doesn’t rain for an unusual amount of time?
More than 20 species of sea star suffered in a disease outbreak that started in 2013. But in many places in the Bay Area, one small star hasn’t returned.
Woodpeckers have the unusual ability to use their beaks to hammer into the trunks of trees to make holes to extract insects and sap. Even more impressive they do this without hurting themselves.
Save the Redwoods League has agreed on a deal to acquire 564 acres of redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains, creating a new connection from Big Basin to Año Nuevo State Parks and protecting the headwaters of Cascade Creek. Cascade Creek will form a protected corridor from the spine of the Santa Cruz Mountains…
After a ferocious battle, the new coyote pair stuck around and the old one had gone.
California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental problems and impaired brain function in children.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
