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

Join Bay Nature Magazine and researcher Dr. Jenn Smith for a look at California ground squirrels and the surprises uncovered through long-term monitoring of their populations in the Bay Area (hint: it ...

Join a community passionate about getting kids outside! The deadline to apply is August 22 . Apply today > Training begins this fall for volunteers interested in leading school groups on environmental ...

Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...

Photo by Scott Doniger Stewardship After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

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

Indigenous land repatriation is much discussed and little practiced in the Bay Area. Why is it so hard to return stolen land?

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

To hear Roger Castillo tell it, all of the City of San José—its million inhabitants, its sprawling residential neighborhoods, its glittery glass high-rises and office-park tech campuses—is more or ...

Climate Change Logjam: The Supply Chain Problem That’s Keeping California From Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires on Private Land Private landowners in California hold a huge amount of forest that's ...