But the smoke made trouble when it traveled. Cal Fire Angel Island might be one of the hardest places in California to hold a prescribed burn. Fire engines have to arrive on a boat, one at a time, all ...
President Trump's administration has proposed cutting the program. But Congress funds the program directly, so Congress will ...
Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, in February 2026. Christopher Sulots, the park’s supervising naturalist, says in the current March heat wave, “I’m seeing things moving a little faster than they ...
Wild lilac cultivars come in all shapes, from ground covers to small shrubs to as large as a small tree. Zone 1 is a perfect ...
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 ...
August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...
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 ...
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 ...
Among life’s small, durable joys is the discovery of a bird’s nest: perhaps in the shape of a bowl, woven from grasses and stems with a skill that seems inexplicable. How could a creature with such a ...
There are creatures in the Bay Area that can have two heads. Or no heads. Or a head some of the time, until they rip themselves in half to reproduce, then grow a new one. On the surface, it would seem ...
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 ...
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