Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016.

Lifelong San José resident Apollo-Genesis Braddock-Layton has fished the Pacific Coast’s shore for as long as he can remember ...

A coalition of advocates and loyal supporters has staved off the closure of a unique marine research center on the San ...

Bay Nature Talk: Tracking 101. Expert tracker Garth Harwood shares a virtual talk with the Bay Nature audience about how to go tracking. Garth shares about the evidence that local wildlife species ...

Susan Kuramoto Moffat has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Estuary News ...

The Amah Mutsun, a Native American tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area, work to restore landscape ecology with traditional ecological knowledge.

Tens of thousands of years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains wore upon their shoulders the ancestors of today’s rivers. The waterways flowed down from the highlands to meander across the ...

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 ...

Male elephant seals are among the loudest mammals ever recorded, and they can weigh more than two tons. (Photo by Steve Zamek, Feather Light Photography) On a sparkling blue January morning, I meet ...

The dredger Njord runs 24 hours a day, scooping up sediment to keep channels navigable for big ships. Now that sediment will help save our shorelines. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) As I arrived at the Port ...

This summer, our special Explore issue of the magazine is a trove of ideas and information for recharging your biophilia.

Gosliner told me a story about how much Chan enjoyed the success of a classmate who became a professional water skier.. “It wasn’t just a set of academic accomplishments or one single trajectory that ...