There are way more fishes in the Bay than you think.

The last fish barrier is falling—a watershed moment, if you will.

A soundscape recordist is an escape artist.

After L.A. wildfires and Trump cuts, Prop 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation will be even more important—and competitive. Here’s what you need to know.

Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.

Some organizations are doubling down on DEI. Others are taking down words that could get them in trouble.

Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.”

Grant funding from BIL and IRA, Biden’s signature climate laws, has been frozen. “We’re in a biodiversity meltdown,” says butterfly scientist Stu Weiss. “We don’t have time for these kinds of delays.”

Restoration dollars from the IRA mark the latest chapter in stewardship across the Cosumnes River watershed, where sandhill cranes flock.

Even key critics of Aramis, in the North Livermore Valley, say its habitat conservation plan is not terrible.

Prop. 4’s $10 billion for climate adaptation is one blessing. Another is money that can’t be unspent.

The next time you sit at the shore, ponder the physics before you. A sketchbook from John Muir Laws.

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David Hayes shaped BIL and IRA, Biden-era funding bills whose big money for nature we’ve been tracking across the greater Bay Area. Here, he takes stock of how they’ve fared—and what might happen to t...

Climate change is coming for our most critical pollinators. Scientists are figuring out if our bees can handle the heat.

Every time I’m in the forests at the foothills of the Western Ghats, I breathe out deeper than I have in months.