Editor’s note On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley ...

One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the Delta, thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten ...

A white-headed woodpecker stirs the dawn quiet, hammering at a patch of charred bark stretching 15 feet up the trunk of a ponderosa pine. The first streaks of sun light the tree’s green crown, sending ...

A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...

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. The mud at Richmond, ...

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. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver Brandon Berry is slurping up clouds of algae with an underwater vacuum cleaner. Snorkeling above, I can hear his Darth Vader breaths better than I can see ...

The day after Donald Trump’s re-election, Ann Willis, the California regional director for American Rivers, sent an email to her staff. “We all have to remember that we have all made a commitment to ...

The environment is on the ballot this November—and not just in the presidential race. Amidst a plethora of other measures, Californians will vote on Proposition 4, the so-called climate bond, which ...

Bay Nature has just opened nominations for our 2025 Local Hero Awards! Next spring’s event will mark our 15th annual Local Hero Awards and Bay Nature’s 25th anniversary as an organization. We look ...

On a gray early March morning in Sonoma County, everything is dripping. Somewhere, out of sight, in hollow trees and rocky caves, tiny American black bear cubs nurse in the dark. Born at less than a ...