Bay Area sport fish sampled in a study were tainted with PFAS. But it’s not so easy to persuade anglers to eat less fish.

Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...

Bay Nature Talk: Tracking 101. Expert tracker Garth Harwood shares a virtual talk with the Bay Nature audience about how to go tracking. Garth shares about the evidence that local wildlife species ...

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

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

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 meander across the ...

Rinihmu Pulte’irekne, formerly Sequoia Point, in Joaquin Miller Park. (Courtesy of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust) This piece was produced in collaboration with News from Native California, a nonprofit ...

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 itself and drop. Occasionally, the ...

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 ...

Castillo, a lifelong San José resident, semi-retired semiconductor assembler and forklift driver, and recent board president of the Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District, took me a few ...

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 ...

Dozens of tires litter the mouth of Rodeo Creek, on San Pablo Bay’s south shore. These tires are a likely source of 6PPD-quinone, which is toxic to fish. (Photo by Kate Golden) Nature News A Nasty ...