Join Wholly H2O for a fun adventure at the Albany Bulb! Get ready to have tons of fun showing off your documenting and observing skills by capturing the local birds. Check out iNaturalist to see other bird species our community … Read more
New Colony of a Rare Stingless Bee, Once Presumed Absent from California, Found By a Four-Year-Old in Palo Alto
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 two more.
After More Than One Million Nature Observations Worldwide, the Most Common Sighting Was …
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?
Our Global Effort to Find Nature and Community In a Time of Shelter-in-Place
The City Nature Challenge has gone hyperlocal and non-competitive. That doesn’t mean giving up our goals.
The City Nature Challenge, Modified, Returns
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.
With No Sign of Monarch Rebound, Butterfly Experts and Enthusiasts Meet and Plan
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 — in a blaze of monarch T-shirts, monarch scarves, monarch earrings, … Read more
Counting Birds, Who are Counting on Humanity
In a dark year, citizen science can shine a light on the natural world — and on humanity.
Traffic Is Driving A Newt Massacre in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Citizen scientists tracking roadkill on Alma Bridge Road have counted an astonishing number of dead newts this season.
Why I Go Outside in this Era of Contempt
A citizen scientist and amateur naturalist on the value of nature.