Many people, including Doug McConnell himself, would say he led a charmed life. And he did, but it came to a close in January ...

Wildlife are drawn to the blooms and berries in Susan and Bill Teefy's native garden in Castro Valley. Elijah Nouvelage / ...

Did you know that you an find an echo of the spin of the planet in the sails of the by-the-wind sailors that wash ashore in ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to an extraordinary range of plant life, from ancient coast redwoods and fire-adapted oaks to wildflowers that appear overnight after the first winter rains. Bay ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to thousands of insect species, from ladybugs overwintering in your walls to hawk moths mistaken for hummingbirds to glowworms lighting up East Bay hillsides after ...

Trump has pulled back big parts of Biden’s signature climate laws. But BIL and IRA have already awarded at least $1.4 billion to Bay Area nature. BIL and IRA spending on nature in the greater San ...

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State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...