Although the Legislature just shot down a bill to assess the possibility of reintroduction, the idea and debate persist. And everyone's got an opinion.
Conservation often focuses on losses, but rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors into East Bay skies, and consider the apex of ...
How much is nature worth—specifically? In this issue, we look at the multibillion-dollar business that has quietly grown up around that question. We cover the growing pains of a Bay Area tech startup ...
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 ...
State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monarchs roost on a eucalyptus tree at Moran Lake in Santa Cruz. (Stuart Weiss, Ph.D.) Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in ...
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