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.

Biodiversity After 28 Years, Alameda Creek Opens Up To Fish The final barrier is falling. It's a watershed moment.

A pod of harbor seals lounging on the banks of Elkhorn Slough (Judy Gallagher via Flickr, CC by 2.0) First Look A Battery Fire Deposits Heavy Metals into Elkhorn Slough Lithium-ion battery ...

A humpback whale snaps its mouth shut, full of anchovy. (Bill Keener/The Marine Mammal Center) Biodiversity The Backstory on Pacifica’s Whale Bonanza Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline ...

Botany A Lifeline for Three Endangered Wildflowers The Inflation Reduction Act is helping scientists imagine hopeful futures for endangered North Bay wildflower species. It’s been decades since they ...

For the first time in history, black bears are living in North Bay counties, occupying an ecological niche once filled by grizzlies.

A group of coho salmon alevin, with intact egg sacks still visible. (Will Boucher) Conservation A Last Best Hope for Coho in the Russian River Now equipped with $8.4 million in federal money, ...

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

Young kelp, on PVC pipes under grow lights at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. Once these babies are three months old, they’ll leave their sheltered lab lives and be outplanted on the seafloor ...

Alder Creek flows beneath a brand- new culvert, called an open bottom arch culvert. (Photo by Carmen Erasmus) History East Bay Parks: The McCosker Property Is A Landscape Transformed The East Bay ...

Biodiversity Why a Mouse Matters A reporter tags along on an epic slog to survey the salt marsh harvest mouse—the Bay’s own special mouse, and a saltscape survivalist extraordinaire.

As SGMA deadlines loom, environmental organizations, and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are scrambling to prepare for a drier future.