Lifelong San José resident Apollo-Genesis Braddock-Layton has fished the Pacific Coast’s shore for as long as he can remember ...

Jeff Miller stands atop the fish barrier at the base of Niles Community Park as they rescue stranded steelhead in 2016.

A coalition of advocates and loyal supporters has staved off the closure of a unique marine research center on the San ...

Susan Kuramoto Moffat has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Estuary News ...

But often those sounds are drawn from a limited set of online libraries, which get repetitive. Companies making mental health ...

This summer, our special Explore issue of the magazine is a trove of ideas and information for recharging your biophilia.

Welcome to Bay Nature’s mini-guide to 25 Bay Area trails in some of our favorite places, ranging from peaks and valleys to redwoods and tidal marshes, described in 25 stories from Bay Nature‘s ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains wore upon their shoulders the ancestors of today’s rivers. The waterways flowed down from the highlands to meander across the ...

We’re peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, ...

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

Illustration by Jason Holley. On July 27, 2017 this story was announced as a finalist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 2017 Communication Awards.. Every year, as summer ...

A watershed’s moment . At its northernmost reaches, in the mountains above Ukiah, the Russian River begins. Here, it touches fingers with the headwaters of the Eel River, which disappears to the north ...