Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...
The Trump administration is now tearing up the EPA's endangerment finding as it tries to roll back climate regulations on everything from vehicles to industries.
City CarShare member interview City Carshare member Kelly Jensen arrives at San Bruno Mountain San Francisco resident Kelly Jensen is the Interlibrary Loan and Digital Production Assistant at the ...
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 ...
Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...
Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...
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 Pan American Highway runs through the Sechura Desert in Peru, one of the driest places on Earth -- except when El Niño arrives. (Photo by A. Duarte, Flickr Creative Commons) A low-hanging, densely ...
Santa Cruz District Superintendent for California State Parks Chris Spohrer, and Amah Mutsun Tribal Band chairman Valentin Lopez stand in Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve, surrounded by a field of ...
We’re peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, ...
Spiders — and their webs — hold a special place in our cultural mythology. Tattered webbing is a feature of any horror flick, an icon of the evil that is lurking about with the spiders themselves ...
Adult Chinook Salmon. Photo: PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The upriver salmon run is one of nature’s great migrations. Each year mature salmon make the long journey back to their natal ...