For most lakes and rivers, the state’s official map of fecal bacterial contamination shows data that’s more than a year old.

History instructs Black Americans to fear the outdoors. But creating new memories outside will inform our future.

Around State Route 37, which runs along the north side of San Pablo Bay, the sea could rise 7 feet by 2100 because of climate change. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature As the Trump administration kills the legal ...

Among life’s small, durable joys is the discovery of a bird’s nest: perhaps in the shape of a bowl, woven from grasses and stems with a skill that seems inexplicable. How could a creature with such a ...

August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

After decades mapping municipal streetlights, Rick Staychock could see that artificial intelligence would soon come for his job. At 56, he decided to pivot. Now, Staychock has turned towards a field ...

» Access the McCosker property and its five miles of trails that weave around the creeks from the Eastport Staging Area (formerly the Wilcox Staging Area) off Pinehurst Road. » When the first phase of ...

An old railway track used to haul lumber runs through a redwood forest in Northern California. By the early 1860s, the old-growth redwoods in the East Bay had been felled and logging activity had ...

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 ...

After the Buttes erupted, from about 1.4 million to 630,000 years ago, a vast freshwater lake filled the Central Valley. Cleo Vilett In the vast flatness of the Sacramento Valley, encircled by a ...

This story was originally published in the Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper serving western Marin County since 1948. The 150 miles of trails at the Point Reyes National Seashore nearly all began ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...