Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

Join Bay Nature Magazine and researcher Dr. Jenn Smith for a look at California ground squirrels and the surprises uncovered through long-term monitoring of their populations in the Bay Area (hint: it ...

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 ...

Spiders create ideal traps with their webs. This is a guide to some of the most common types of spider webs.

In the mid-2000s, biologist Kim Meyer conducted a two-year census of nesting raptors in the Presidio of San Francisco for the National Park Service, which had recently inherited the former military ...

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Bay Nature Talk: Sunflower Sea Star Join Bay Nature Magazine and Cal Academy marine biologists and experts Riah Evin and Elora López-Nandam for a virtual talk about sunflower sea stars on Wednesday, ...

The Willis Linn Jepson Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will host its semiannual native plant sale on May 3rd in Benicia! 🌻🌿 All plants are grown at our volunteer-run nursery in ...

Come join us at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Fremont for a special event highlighting the importance of protecting our endangered species! Learn about ...

Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...

Indigenous land repatriation is much discussed and little practiced in the Bay Area. Why is it so hard to return stolen land?

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.