Here is the best from Bay Nature’s newsroom this year: the stories that delighted us, enraged us, got us outside, got us ...

On my recent walks at the Marin Headlands, I’ve been seeing a lot of sea foam washing up along the shore. Are these large amounts of foam normal for this time of year? Is the foam toxic to marine life ...

These chinooks are likely hatchery strays. But they are still an ecosystem boon—and flaming-bright symbols of restoration at work.

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But to a mushroom hunter in our verdant, winter rainy season, it can mean something quite different. Greet a new kind of gold: the California golden chanterelle, Cantharellus californicus. Described ...

Monarchs roost on a eucalyptus tree at Moran Lake in Santa Cruz. (Stuart Weiss, Ph.D.) Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in ...