The first update to a local State of the Birds report in 14 years shows restoration working—and some puzzling declines.

The first attempts to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the ...

These chinooks are likely hatchery strays. But they are still an ecosystem boon—and flaming-bright symbols of restoration at work.

The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall at a regional conference, takes the pulse of the San Francisco ...

At times this summer, the shores of San Francisco Bay looked like a piscine battlefront — strewn with dead white and green sturgeon, leopard sharks, striped bass, bat rays, smelt, anchovies, and other ...

As I traipsed barefoot along Ocean Beach’s chilly February sand, ankle-high clumps of spume trembled in the breeze along the tideline, drawing me toward the surf. Upon closer inspection, the mounds of ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Spurts of goo oozed between Jeff Wingfield’s fingers as he methodically crushed a handful of golden mussels, popping ...

On a Saturday evening in late October, my boyfriend and I were walking around César Chávez Park in Berkeley when we came across a man with a camera and tripod near the Burrowing Owl Sanctuary. I asked ...

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Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...

The lights around Lake Merritt flicker off. Dawn has opened a shimmering, pink-feathered window in the pearl-gray sky through which daylight begins to pour over the water, dazzling, like liquid ...

The gums are mottled tan and brown like chicken bones, crowded together, the spaces between them choked with brush and hung with streamers of bark. Along with the sweet medicine smell of the trees, ...