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

Young kelp, on PVC pipes under grow lights at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory. Once these babies are three months old, they’ll leave their sheltered lab lives and be outplanted on the seafloor ...

Fire The Burning Question in the East Bay Hills: Eucalyptus Is Flammable Compared to What? Twenty-five years after the Oakland Hills fire, people still disagree about whether blue gum eucalyptus is a ...

Geology Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways Long buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.

Where kelp forests used to grow, now legions of purple urchins can blanket the ocean bottom, creating urchin barrens. The barrens will persist until something—disease, predators, starvation, or ...

Climate Change A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California's Central Valley ...

Inspired by the science of beaver wetlands, activists tackle a long-held belief that beavers aren't native to much of California.

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

Fisherman Kirk Lombard encourages his seafood customers to eat small and eat weird. The monkeyface eel is both.

Indigenous land repatriation is much discussed and little practiced in the Bay Area. Why is it so hard to return stolen land?

The Pan American Highway runs through the Sechura Desert in Peru, one of the driest places on Earth — except when El Niño arrives. (Photo by A. Duarte, Flickr Creative Commons) El Niño Why’s It Called ...