Thermal cameras just installed in the San Francisco Bay this May have been picking up whale spouts nearly every day.

Sage Ono is a photographer and writer based in Monterey Bay, CA, focused on documenting aquatic ecosystems and the people who depend on them, as they both are increasingly impacte ...

Sage Ono peeks into a small pool on Swamp Creek, in search of rare McCloud River redband trout. Sage Ono It’s hard to imagine a more scenic place to be devoured by mosquitoes than wildflower-speckled ...

California Forever has announced plans for a 7,500 acre shipyard along 6.5 miles of undeveloped riverbank in the Montezuma Hills. It would be the largest greenfield shipyard in recent memory in the ...

This piece was originally published in KneeDeep Times, a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Illegal deforestation.

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

A first-of-its-kind collaboration between Ohlone youth and UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science almost fell apart when a federal grant was axed. Then researchers took the Trump administration to ...

It was 1984, and Jeff Goddard, who was about to start his PhD studying intertidal critters, was having the time of his life traipsing through tidepool paradise, searching for sea slugs. On the rocky ...

Many people, including Doug McConnell himself, would say he led a charmed life. And he did, but it came to a close in January 2026 after nearly four years of effort to recover from a debilitating ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

An overhead view of the Sargent Ranch property, also called Juristac by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. (Teddy Miller, courtesy of POST) In January, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) purchased a ...