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

The boardwalk at LaRiviere Marsh in Fremont, part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Hilary Clark) Essays The Refuge On the Wild Side of Silicon Valley You could ...

Bay Nature staff in 2023 began to follow money for San Francisco Bay Area nature from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. First, we pored through White House data on the ...

Join Bay Nature Magazine and researcher Dr. Jenn Smith for a look at California ground squirrels and the surprises uncovered through long-term monitoring of their populations in the Bay Area (hint: it ...

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 ...

Fire The Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to What? Twenty-five years after the Oakland Hills fire, people still disagree about whether blue gum eucalyptus is a ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...

Climate Change A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California's Central Valley ...

Photo by Scott Doniger Stewardship After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going ...

The Guadalupe River runs through downtown San Jose. (Photo by Andrea Laue) Exploration The Guadalupe River and the Hidden Heart of San José Guadalupe River Trail in San Jose ...

Fisherman Kirk Lombard encourages his seafood customers to eat small and eat weird. The monkeyface eel is both.