Migration of butterflies doesn’t seem to be as clear cut as those who do and those who don’t. For instance, a vast majority ...

Listen this fall for their scratchy calls and in spring for the male’s various songs. To read this Bay Nature magazine story ...

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To protect the Plumas National Forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn ...

Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land ...

The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...

A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Iwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...

This article is from bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and regeneration powered by the California Academy of Sciences. I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely ...

This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The mud at Richmond, ...

Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016. (Courtesy of Jeff Miller) In the summer of 1997, Jeff Miller went for a long ...

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. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

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 ...