
Bay Nature’s annual Summer Guide connects you with unique experiences throughout the Bay Area, from understanding the consequences of an unseasonably early heatwave to volunteer opportunities (link to volunteer section) that help maintain the ecosystems we call home. This year’s guide is brought to you by our advertising partners, whose support helps us to continue…

Meet the wildly complex, lilac-hued squishy that has been arriving in droves in our coastal waters.

Yet amid a sea of bad bird news, San Francisco Bay plovers are doing very nicely.

Dozens of gardens will be on view this weekend in the East Bay’s Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.

Remembering a Bay Area icon of travel and local nature.

A new genomic study suggests they’re their own thing. That’s probably thanks to one bold bird.