A derelict fishing vessel has finally been removed from a Sonoma County beach, after nine years. Waiting to do the cleanup ...

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Sunflower stars have been victims of seastar wasting disease. (Sue Day, Nature Picture Library) Climate Change Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s ...

All 12 Bay Area “critical habitat” groves in a proposed federal threatened listing include eucalyptus. How do we protect a ...

Bay Nature Talk: Sunflower Sea Star Join Bay Nature Magazine and Cal Academy marine biologists and experts Riah Evin and Elora López-Nandam for a virtual talk about sunflower sea stars on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker (Kyle Tansley) Biodiversity A Sapsucker Superspecies Is Evolving In Our Midst The family tree for these woodpecker family members has gotten rather complicated.

Conservation How Local Conservationists Are Planning for the Trump Era Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.

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

The city of Ukiah has acquired these mostly fire-starved hills on its western side to protect the watershed and the community alike. (Courtesy of City of Ukiah) Climate Change On the Russian River, a ...