After two decades of grassroots efforts, 82 acres of precious Richmond parkland are set to open in early 2025. An op-ed by ...

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Years ago, a scientist proposed introducing coyotes to control the island’s deer population. Now, it seems coyotes have since ...

Naturalist and illustrator John Muir Laws is the author of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Birds: A ...

A few years ago, I texted my dad a photo of myself and a dear friend harnessed a few hundred feet off the ground, attached to a cliff by a trio of bolts and some rope, both of us smiling (though my ...

Environmental lawyer David Hayes’s career is intertwined with the U.S. government’s biggest environmental legislation. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton and ...

Sometimes new parents get lucky. They get “easy” babies. Young sunflower sea stars are the fussy kind—but their adoptive parents are managing. At a laboratory in the California Academy of Sciences, ...

The midnight zone begins half a mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, where sunlight can no longer reach. These dark depths are home to a menagerie of deep sea creatures, from bright red ...

This fall, federal funding will launch an unprecedented restoration effort that hopes to change California’s coast forever. With $18 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction ...