Rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors north, and consider the ...

A blackpoll warbler at the Farallones. Researchers used feather DNA to look into the origins of six species of warbler ...

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

Cheryl Patel, field investigator & community science coordinator at Baykeeper (far left) leads the HABs monitoring with volunteers at Alameda Waterfront Park in Alameda. Amir Aziz/Bay Nature In 2022, ...

Yet again this winter, Dungeness season was delayed to keep whales safe. In a surprising turn after years of adamant resistance, more Dungeness crabbers are trying out—and pretty darn happy with—new ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Illegal deforestation.

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

To the uninformed, they might look like giant puddles left behind by the last winter storm. But the 20 visitors gathered on the lower slopes of Sonoma Mountain on an overcast morning in early March ...

Michael Herz and Kate Josephs decided that to make their podcast about the San Francisco Bay, it would be best for them to live upon the San Francisco Bay. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature Four years ago, ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...