The midnight zone begins half a mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, where sunlight can no longer reach. These dark depths ...

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“I grew up in a time when there was a relatively more abundant ocean,” Tristin McHugh, a marine biologist at TNC, says. “I ...

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Gallardo led the transformation of a Santa Rosa garden into a thriving community space for green things and gatherings.

Bay Nature ’s editorial team has scooped up three awards for its science and environment reporting in this year’s premier ...

One of our greatest tools for understanding the earth’s oceans as a dynamic system is a collection of roughly 4,000 international oceanic probes called Argo. The name is inspired by the most famous ...

A version of this story was originally published by the San Francisco Public Press, as part of its 2024 Voter Guide. SFPP also published on Oct. 31 an analysis of the likely traffic impacts if ...