BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

The proposed new Solano city will need an environmental impact report. We reviewed all 616 pages of public comments on what that report should include ...

It's a lot of pressure to put on young people to have to sue their government for the right to a livable planet,” says Maya Williams.

Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State Park represented one more success story in the long and remarkable ...

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

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The USFWS proposed monarch butterflies for a federal listing in 2024. The butterflies weather the winter months at Bay Area refuges like Natural Bridges State Beach, pictured. Brian Baer / California ...

Orange pore fungus (Favolaschia claudopus) Alan Rockefeller via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 On my very first guided mushroom hike at Joaquin Miller Park, 30 long years ago, I was gobsmacked at the idea ...

A northern saw-whet in hand. These owls are extremely secretive and rarely seen in the wild. Tanvi Dutta Gupta / Bay Nature Say what you will about the fall time change, but it does make catching ...

Nearly a dozen chinook salmon have swum the 12 miles upstream from the San Francisco Bay through Alameda Creek into Niles Canyon—likely the first salmon to spawn there in 30 years, according to Jeff ...