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.

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

History instructs Black Americans to fear the outdoors. But creating new memories outside will inform our future.

For most lakes and rivers, the state’s official map of fecal bacterial contamination shows data that’s more than a year old.

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

After decades mapping municipal streetlights, Rick Staychock could see that artificial intelligence would soon come for his job. At 56, he decided to pivot. Now, Staychock has turned towards a field ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A crow funeral can happen at any time. Farmers bear witness after shooting unwanted crows in their fields. Powerline workers see them should an unlucky bird zap itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...

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 ...