Victoria Schlesinger is the editor in chief of Bay Nature.

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 ...

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

Somewhere in the Bodie Hills, in predawn darkness on a section of dirt road that looks pretty much the same as any other spot on every other dirt road east of the Sierra Nevada, biologist Katrina ...

ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...

On the underside of a western gull (Larus occidentalis)’s deep yellow bill is a bright red blotch, like a smudge of forgotten ketchup. It’s there with a purpose. The gull’s chicks, often born in ...

Once, not so long ago, there lived a fish in the Galapagos Islands. Its name was Azurina eupalama, the Galapagos damsel; it was not particularly different from any other small rocky reef fish.

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 ...

The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...

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 ...

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