The job: Coastal ecologist for a state agency. Essentials: Patience, curiosity, diplomacy,, and adaptability—to keep your footing when the shoreline (literal or political) shifts beneath you. Also, an ...

It is with great sadness we share news of the passing of Malcolm Margolin, writer, editor, book publisher, and co-founder of Bay Nature magazine. Malcolm died Wednesday, August 20, from complications ...

A derelict fishing vessel has finally been removed from a Sonoma County beach, after nine years. Waiting to do the cleanup ...

All 12 Bay Area “critical habitat” groves in a proposed federal threatened listing include eucalyptus. How do we protect a ...

Examining the human-engineered oyster substrate at Giant Marsh during a low tide in May 2025. (Sonya Bennett Brandt) Conservation A Living Shoreline, Built One Oyster at a Time ...

A glider surfaces in its mission collecting ocean data. (Courtesy of Instrument Development Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Climate Change These Programs Have Monitored Our Waters For ...

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Environmental Justice The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish PFAS is 'way more widespread than we really thought' in Bay Area sport fish, a scientist says. But it’s not so ...

The ice plant become an unlikely symbol of Oakland pride—at least for A’s fans. But its symbolism is deeply counterintuitive.

One year ago, a team of earnest conservationists released a few dozen silvery blue butterflies at the Presidio, hoping they would settle down and fill the ecological niche once held there by the ...

Ocean Beach from Sutro Heights stretching south towards Montara Mountain in the distance (National Park Service) First Look Along With Its New Park, Ocean Beach Gets a Dunescaping Sea-level rise is ...

One Maidu and Wintun woman discovered what happens when floating tule on water. The growth of life might be able to limit mosquito populations.