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

In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined my first prescribed burn, led by Fire Forward, to learn about ...

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 ...

To start moth-lighting, tack up a white sheet or cloth outside. It could be on a wall or fence, tree or clothesline. I’ve used three types of UV (black) lights: (1) a ruler-size LED light bar that ...

Once a Berkeley student project, iNaturalist is a social network—and a scientific database. Now, the public departure of its cofounder highlights the challenge of balancing the two.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dust devil whirls near Stratford, Calif., during the drought of 2014. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Roaring winds engulfed the southern San Joaquin Valley in ...

Seasonal Tolay Lake brimmed with water this spring, spanning some 200 acres thanks to plentiful rains earlier in the year. (Photo by Christopher Coughlin) This story is part of our Summer 2025 trails ...

An old railway track used to haul lumber runs through a redwood forest in Northern California. By the early 1860s, the old-growth redwoods in the East Bay had been felled and logging activity had ...