I think it got something!” Avroh Shah says. Out at the Baylands Nature Preserve, the sweep of sky over these shimmering ...

Avroh Shah, Young Leader Mirella Ramos, Environmental Educator Susan Schwartz, Community Hero Annie Burke, Conservation ...

Dick, pioneering research from Monterey Canyon and beyond is transforming how we understand the life of an enigmatic ocean ...

Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.

This article was first published on Richmondside and Richmond Confidential, and is part of The Stakes, a UC Berkeley ...

Before it was a city, much of San Francisco was a dunescape. Nearly a third of it was covered in sand. Western winds swept the sand into heaps and piles—one 80-foot dune rested in the future Union ...

It’s barely dawn in Pacifica, and the pack scouts through thick coastal fog. Eyes aren’t much help here—a speeding cyclist is barely dodged—but the leader’s nose keeps the group on track. His snout ...

It’s a normal Tuesday morning for Susan Schwartz and her group of “weed warriors”—eight volunteers tucked away in a corner of the Lake Anza parking lot in Tilden Regional Park. And warriors they are.

“Este es un ratón recolector de marismas saladas,” Mirella Ramos tells a group of elementary- and middle-school students at the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. And then Ramos repeats it in ...

With black hood and dagger beak, western and Clark’s grebes—close relatives that sometimes hybridize—strike rakish figures on Bay Area waters, where many breed in the spring and summer. But for all ...

My first morning as a writer in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, a few springs ago, I followed a short, steep dirt track behind the old military building that was my new ...