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.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Herz and Kate Josephs decided that to make their podcast about the San Francisco Bay, it would be best for them to live upon the San Francisco Bay. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature Four years ago, ...

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 ...