The Pocket Forests Grow Thick
Three years ago, kids at four East Bay schools planted tiny forests from scratch, using an ultra-dense planting known as the Miyawaki method. Our reporter ducks into two of them...
Tag: heat
It’s a Dry Heat
What happens in an always warm world when it doesn’t rain for an unusual amount of time?
‘There’s No Ambiguity. It Will Be Gone.’ How Animals Will Feel the Warming Climate
An examination of Northern California illustrates the challenges of trying to predict the future for evolving species.
Bay Nature and the ‘Defining Story of Our Time’
Bay Nature has joined “Covering Climate Now,” a global collaboration of more than 250 media outlets this week to boost coverage of climate change. As organizers Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle...
California’s Early June Heat Wave Cooked Coastal Mussels in Place
Bodega Marine Reserve research coordinator Jackie Sones has worked in or walked on the rocky shores of the North Coast almost every day for the last 15 years. But while...
It’s So Hot Everywhere Else — Why Not in the Bay Area?
Most of the state has set record temperatures this summer, but San Francisco has been cool and almost permanently cloudy because of its cool marine layer.
How Extreme Heat Caught San Francisco By Surprise Over Labor Day Weekend
Forecasters thought it would be hot in San Francisco over Labor Day -- meaning, you know, in the high 80s. Instead it was 106. What happened?
