Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

California roach at Sulphur Creek, which is undergoing restoration. Fish will have easier passage through area streams, thanks to IRA and BIL money. (Martin Perales, Napa Resource Conservation ...

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 ...

In the mid-2000s, biologist Kim Meyer conducted a two-year census of nesting raptors in the Presidio of San Francisco for the National Park Service, which had recently inherited the former military ...

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Bay Nature Talk: Sunflower Sea Star Join Bay Nature Magazine and Cal Academy marine biologists and experts Riah Evin and Elora López-Nandam for a virtual talk about sunflower sea stars on Wednesday, ...

Join a community passionate about getting kids outside! The deadline to apply is August 22 . Apply today > Training begins this fall for volunteers interested in leading school groups on environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Climate Change Logjam: The Supply Chain Problem That’s Keeping California From Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires on Private Land Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that's ...