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

Trump has pulled back big parts of Biden’s signature climate laws. But BIL and IRA have already awarded at least $1.4 billion ...

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

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 ...

When ranchers leave the land, what version of nature takes over? The park and The Nature Conservancy have ambitious restoration plans.

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) Biodiversity What Lies Beneath Can we keep ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker (Kyle Tansley) Biodiversity A Sapsucker Superspecies Is Evolving In Our Midst The family tree for these woodpecker family members has gotten rather complicated.

Conservation How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.

The environment is on the ballot this November—and not just in the presidential race. Amidst a plethora of other measures, Californians will vote on Proposition 4, the so-called climate bond, which ...

Bay Nature has just opened nominations for our 2025 Local Hero Awards! Next spring’s event will mark our 15th annual Local Hero Awards and Bay Nature’s 25th anniversary as an organization. We look ...

For the first time in history, black bears are living in North Bay counties, occupying an ecological niche once filled by grizzlies.