Although the Legislature just shot down a bill to assess the possibility of reintroduction, the idea and debate persist. And everyone's got an opinion.
Rewilding is an exercise in imagination—and optimism. In this issue, we follow California condors north, and consider the apex of reintroductions: grizzly bears. We examine our new wildfire-changed ...
A blackpoll warbler at the Farallones. Researchers used feather DNA to look into the origins of six species of warbler visitors to the islands. Jim Tietz / Point Blue Conservation Science Some ...
Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...
Cheryl Patel, field investigator & community science coordinator at Baykeeper (far left) leads the HABs monitoring with volunteers at Alameda Waterfront Park in Alameda. Amir Aziz/Bay Nature In 2022, ...
An overhead view of the Sargent Ranch property, also called Juristac by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. (Teddy Miller, courtesy of POST) In January, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased a ...
Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...
From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...
A dust devil whirls near Stratford, Calif., during the drought of 2014. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Roaring winds engulfed the southern San Joaquin Valley in ...
Over 300,000 common murres nest on the Farallon Islands, an indication of the high productivity of the surrounding marine habitat. (David Wimpfheimer) The cacophonous alarm cries of western gulls rang ...
August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...
Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, in February 2026. Christopher Sulots, the park’s supervising naturalist, says in the current March heat wave, “I’m seeing things moving a little faster than they ...