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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...

An old railway track used to haul lumber runs through a redwood forest in Northern California. By the early 1860s, the old-growth redwoods in the East Bay had been felled and logging activity had ...

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 ...

Since 2000, Julian Wood has perfected the art of not falling into the hidden channels that weave through the Bay’s tidal marshes. Come early spring tides, the San Francisco Bay program leader at the ...

A dust devil whirls near Stratford, Calif., during the drought of 2014. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Roaring winds engulfed the southern San Joaquin Valley in ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...