Long-term monitoring isn’t sexy,” says one source. But this data is how we know what is happening to the planet.

Donna Graves couldn’t believe it when she heard that the LGBTQ+ exhibit she created at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California, was in jeopardy.

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Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Photo by Scott Doniger Stewardship After Decades Away, River Otters Make a Triumphant Return to the Bay Area Scientists and volunteers track a remarkable return, and study how to keep it going ...

The Amah Mutsun, a Native American tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area, work to restore landscape ecology with traditional ecological knowledge.

Climate Change A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California's Central Valley ...

Lake Merritt changed dramatically over the centuries, but it still supports estuarine habitat -- in addition to the recreation needs of a growing city.

Inspired by the science of beaver wetlands, activists tackle a long-held belief that beavers aren't native to much of California.

Coronavirus Biodiversity and the Spread of Disease Ecology drives infectious disease. Research on Lyme shows why.

Here to stay? Mats of Eurasian watermilfoil clog waterways in the Tahoe Keys, on Lake Tahoe’s south side. It can regrow from a wisp. (Sonya Bennett-Brandt) Biodiversity What Lies Beneath Can we keep ...

In 1991, after earning a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Barry moved back north to work at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Early in his career he spent some of his time ...