Voting season is here—for bees! Until September 8th, folks can vote for their choice of state bee. Picking a native ...

Pesticides used in common over-the-counter topical tick and flea treatments have been found in Bay Area wastewater effluent ...

A bill to exempt the proposed shipyard from environmental analysis is doing the time warp again.

This story contains graphic descriptions and depictions of carnivory.

Jake Sigg, one of California’s best-known advocates for protecting native biodiversity, died on June 10, one week after his ...

Scientists have schlepped up some silvery blue butterflies, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, from the Monterey area to the Presidio, to stand in for their extinct cousin. (Gayle Laird, California Academy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a cold spring night at Mori Point in Pacifica, the pounding rain has finally stopped. Clouds pull away, revealing a half moon and a glimpse into houses on the nearby hills. It casts a reflection ...

From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring ...