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

David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay ...

Until recently, the deep sea was too distant, cold, and high pressure for humans to explore, and much of it remains unknown.

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

ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON IN 1962, a 14-year-old boy named Jim Carlton scrambled down through thick brush onto the exposed muddy shoreline of Adams Point on Lake Merritt. The small beach was quiet ...

TO GET TO THE EXCEEDINGLY rare plant called California sea-blite you go down to the east shore of San Francisco on an unmarked industrial road, past warehouses and jumbled rail lines. Cement plant ...

The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...

We’re tracking what nature projects have been funded so far in our area—like an experimental kelp-forest restoration, major upgrades to the Presidio, and a battle against Tahoe invasives. (Help us add ...

As of now, the projects we’ve been tracking for Wild Billions now amount to nearly $1.4 billion—$1,368,010,445, to be exact. That’s money federal agencies are spending on nature in the greater San ...