Bay Nature Institute honors remarkable local conservation and nature leaders and activists at our annual Local Hero Awards.

One of Watsonville’s most treasured natural resources is its plethora of wetlands. Its slough system is home to some of the ...

Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in ...

Beaver-inspired structures could limit flooding and benefit wildlife habitat, but state permitting is arduous.

The 10-year fight over a private island in the San Francisco Bay ends today. Point Buckler’s 50 acres of marshland on the southern edge of Grizzly Bay will be sold to the highest bidder on the Solano ...

which successfully led the campaign to save the wetlands in the 1990s. The land is now owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and managed as part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National ...

The 24 selected projects will help protect and restore wetlands and water quality ... on underserved communities in the nine Bay Area counties. San Francisco Bay is a designated “estuary ...

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.” ...

A decade ago the former owner constructed an unauthorized levee without permits or approvals from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and other agencies, resulting in an ...

(Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch) Where they chew, wetlands often follow ... A Stanford engineer by training, he returned to Wisconsin from San Francisco Bay in 1989 to join his family’s road ...

The Moss Landing Power Plant, about 95 miles south of San Francisco ... burning on the shore of Monterey Bay is also situated next to environmentally sensitive areas such as Elkhorn Slough, designated ...