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

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

Bay Nature Talk: Birding By Ear Join Bay Nature Magazine and expert birder and artist Clay Anderson for a virtual talk about birding by ear on March 26, from 12 – 1pm. This will be a fun, informal ...

KEEPERS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LIFE WAYS When California became a state in 1850, the persecution of Native Californians intensified, in some places to the point of genocide, and many tribal people ...

In any event, it’s easier to appreciate the main work of most spiders — namely their web building — when you’re an order of magnitude larger than insect-sized. To see webs for what they are, chiefly ...

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 ...

Painting by Owen Smith 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 ...

River advocates see the period of rapid development and transportation investment downtown as an opportunity to capitalize on the river’s new edge and to revitalize the once-and-future natural heart ...

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.

Why Indigenous land claims are so rare The loss of Ohlone land in the Bay Area came in three waves of colonization and genocide, beginning with the Spanish in the 18th century and followed by Mexican ...

(Photo by ouzel, iNaturalist CC-BY) 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 ...