A glider surfaces in its mission collecting ocean data. (Courtesy of Instrument Development Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) Climate Change These Programs Have Monitored Our Waters For ...

Donna Graves couldn’t believe it when she heard that the LGBTQ+ exhibit she created at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California, was in jeopardy.

Biodiversity After 28 Years, Alameda Creek Opens Up To Fish The final barrier is falling. It's a watershed moment.

A humpback whale snaps its mouth shut, full of anchovy. (Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center) Biodiversity The Backstory on Pacifica’s Whale Bonanza Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline ...

Botany A Lifeline for Three Endangered Wildflowers The Inflation Reduction Act is helping scientists imagine hopeful futures for endangered North Bay wildflower species. It’s been decades since they ...

Scientists have schlepped up some silvery blue butterflies, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, from the Monterey area to the Presidio, to stand in for their extinct cousin. (Gayle Laird, California Academy of ...

A group of coho salmon alevin, with intact egg sacks still visible. (Will Boucher) Conservation A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, ...

Shade is nowhere to be found on a stretch of International Boulevard in East Oakland. Like the rest of the flatlands, this area historically got highways and rail lines instead of parks and trees.

Young kelp, on PVC pipes under grow lights at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. Once these babies are three months old, they’ll leave their sheltered lab lives and be outplanted on the seafloor ...

Biodiversity Why a Mouse Matters A reporter tags along on an epic slog to survey the salt marsh harvest mouse—the Bay’s own special mouse, and a saltscape survivalist extraordinaire.

For a male frog wanting a mate, it is vitally important to stand out, to be heard in his declarations, for listeners to glean his meaning.

6PPD-quinone comes from a long-used chemical that will be hard to replace in tires. But green infrastructure like "living levees" may help trap it.