All 12 Bay Area “critical habitat” groves in a proposed federal threatened listing include eucalyptus. How do we protect a ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) Conservation A Living Shoreline, Built One Oyster at a Time ...

Environmental Justice The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish PFAS is 'way more widespread than we really thought' in Bay Area sport fish, a scientist says. But it’s not so ...

Ocean Beach from Sutro Heights stretching south towards Montara Mountain in the distance (National Park Service) First Look Along With Its New Park, Ocean Beach Gets a Dunescaping Sea-level rise is ...

Conservation How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.

Inside a dense thicket on the grounds of Cragmont Elementary in the Berkeley Hills. Students planted this tiny forest of local natives in 2021 using the Miyawaki method, which is meant to grow into a ...

For the first time in history, black bears are living in North Bay counties, occupying an ecological niche once filled by grizzlies.

Climate Change Mud-Starved Wetlands Get a Meal, At Last With Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, the Bay’s wetlands are finally getting some precious muck. Why have we been dumping it offshore?

Inspired by the science of beaver wetlands, activists tackle a long-held belief that beavers aren't native to much of California.

Brown pelicans flock at Bolinas Lagoon, a wetland of international significance. (William Legge) First Look The Storied Bolinas Marine Laboratory Is Reborn The College of Marin's lab, one of two in ...

Young kelp, on PVC pipes under grow lights at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. Once these babies are three months old, they’ll leave their sheltered lab lives and be outplanted on the seafloor ...