Thermal cameras just installed in the San Francisco Bay this May have been picking up whale spouts nearly every day.

Sage Ono is a photographer and writer based in Monterey Bay, CA, focused on documenting aquatic ecosystems and the people who depend on them, as they both are increasingly impacte ...

Consider any single acre of land in the Bay Area today and all the lives it may have lived. There were vast stretches of time when an acre would have experienced warmer climes and then cooler eras, ...

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 ...

Jedda Foreman, associate director at the Lawrence Hall of Science, and Vincent Medina, co-leader of the ‘ottoy Initiative at UC Berkeley, look up on May 13 during install of a new exhibit designed in ...

"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 ...

Many people, including Doug McConnell himself, would say he led a charmed life. And he did, but it came to a close in January 2026 after nearly four years of effort to recover from a debilitating ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

An overhead view of the Sargent Ranch property, also called Juristac by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. (Teddy Miller, courtesy of POST) In January, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased a ...

Among life’s small, durable joys is the discovery of a bird’s nest: perhaps in the shape of a bowl, woven from grasses and stems with a skill that seems inexplicable. How could a creature with such a ...

California Forever, under its subsidiary Flannery Associates, has purchased more than one tenth of Solano County's land over the past decade, including this field next to Highway 113. Amir Aziz / Bay ...