In an unprecedented heat wave, we check in on the newts, the bears, the mussels, and all those flowers that just woke up for spring.

But the 20 visitors gathered on the lower slopes of Sonoma Mountain on an overcast morning in early March understood they were special: vernal pools—vital features of the California landscape that ...

BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

The USFWS proposed monarch butterflies for a federal listing in 2024. The butterflies weather the winter months at Bay Area refuges like Natural Bridges State Beach, pictured. Brian Baer / California ...

Orange pore fungus (Favolaschia claudopus) Alan Rockefeller via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0 On my very first guided mushroom hike at Joaquin Miller Park, 30 long years ago, I was gobsmacked at the idea ...

A northern saw-whet in hand. These owls are extremely secretive and rarely seen in the wild. Tanvi Dutta Gupta / Bay Nature Say what you will about the fall time change, but it does make catching ...

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 beam of white light cuts the winter’s heavy air, dividing the coast live oak forest into the comprehensible and the unknown. I click off my torch and let the darkness envelop me, prompting my senses ...

An ambitious person could hike from Monte Rio all the way to the ocean. Justin Whittaker / The Coldwater Collective, courtesy of Save the Redwoods League Through a densely forested slope on the west ...