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

Bay Nature offered a record 85 events in 2025 reaching nearly 6,000 registrants! Our growing events program is powered by our journalism. We take stories on the page and bring them to life—whether ...

How much sea foam along the shore is normal for this time of year? And how can you tell if it's harmful to marine life? We asked UC Santa Cruz oceanographer Raphael Kudela.

Using resources more efficiently and effectively—that’s a major part of what sustainability is all about and exactly what Bay Area Action (BAA) and the Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation (PCCF) ...

Explore land, nature, and conservation issues from a literary perspective by attending the Peninsula Open Space Trust’s annual Wallace Stegner Lecture Series. The line-up for spring includes retired ...

For a migratory bird, timing is everything. For maximal fitness, the sojourner’s itinerary must be precisely timed so that every step of its breeding cycle—arrival on the breeding ground, egg-laying, ...

Grasslands managed by the San Francisco International Airport are important habitat for the imperiled San Francisco garter snake. (Photo by Anton Sorokin) Dropping into San Francisco International ...

This article is from bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and regeneration powered by the California Academy of Sciences. I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely ...

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 ...

Yellowfin gobies, washed up on Lake Merritt's shore at the height of the bloom. (Courtesy of Damon Tighe) “That’s the million dollar question for people that study phytoplankton — why now, and why ...

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...