Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found...
After 50,000 people made nearly 1.3 million observations worldwide, what was the most common species found in the Bay Area and in the world?
The City Nature Challenge has gone hyperlocal and non-competitive. That doesn't mean giving up our goals.
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.
Most everyone wants to save the monarch butterflies. But it turns out that when you put a bunch of lepidopterists, land managers, gardeners, and butterfly enthusiasts in one room —...
Party cups—that would normally hold beer—painted fluorescent blue, yellow, and white rest atop a mess of dried-up orchardgrass and are tethered to the ground with a thin cord. Inside each...
There's a resurgence in exploring and documenting nature worldwide
The mining bee family Andrenidae is tough to get to know. They are, for all this, among our most common wild bees.
The global citizen science competition returns April 27-May 3.
In a dark year, citizen science can shine a light on the natural world -- and on humanity.
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
