Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco ...

Did you know that you an find an echo of the spin of the planet in the sails of the by-the-wind sailors that wash ashore in ...

Wildlife are drawn to the blooms and berries in Susan and Bill Teefy's native garden in Castro Valley. Elijah Nouvelage / ...

"These waves are Valkyries fans!" commented @marcyhelm on Instagram (meaning the hot new Bay Area women's basketball team, not the opera). Jacqueline Quale Prince might have been inspired by a beach ...

Trump has pulled back big parts of Biden’s signature climate laws. But BIL and IRA have already awarded at least $1.4 billion to Bay Area nature. BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San ...

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 ...

Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...

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 ...

Point Reyes National Seashore wildlife ecologist Dave Press. (Photo by Carlos Porrata) Dave Press slides on a pair of aviator glasses and begins hiking up a hill, only to cast them aside at the top ...

A mom and pup in the wild. Southern sea otters were hunted out for their furs, and are making a comeback in central California with human help. (Photo by Erin Underwood) In a small kitchen inside the ...