BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

But the 20 visitors gathered on the lower slopes of Sonoma Mountain on an overcast morning in early March understood they ...

In an unprecedented heat wave, we check in on the newts, the bears, the mussels, and all those flowers that just woke up for spring.

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BLM wants to open up areas for drilling near beloved Bay Area parks and wild spaces. We break down how likely that is.

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...

The monkeyface eel, widely considered ugly-yet-delicious, makes its home on the rocky coast. It is the elusive object of affection -- and livelihood -- for a small band of dedicated fishermen. (Photo ...

Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...