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 ...

California lawmakers struck a deal to divert $125 million in climate funding to buy the former Golden Gate Fields track and turn it into a park. Gov. Gavin Newsom supports the project.

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

This story contains graphic descriptions and depictions of carnivory.

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 ...

San Francisco State University researchers had a five-year NIH grant to assess the physiological effects of nature on Black and brown students. The Trump administration said the work supported ...

A gray whale surfaces in the waters off San Francisco. Michael Pierson YERBA BUENA ISLAND—Summer fog covers the Bay, so we can’t even spot Angel Island, let alone a gray whale. But Gary Reed, director ...

California Forever has announced plans for a 7,500 acre shipyard along 6.5 miles of undeveloped riverbank in the Montezuma Hills. It would be the largest greenfield shipyard in recent memory in the ...

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

Jedda Foreman, associate director at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and Vincent Medina, co-leader of the ‘ottoy Initiative at UC Berkeley, look up on May 13 during install of a new exhibit designed in ...

Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco Bay—somewhere salty, flat, and undisturbed in which to dig a slight scrape for a clutch ...