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Once, not so long ago, there lived a fish in the Galapagos Islands. Its name was Azurina eupalama, the Galapagos damsel; it was not particularly different from any other small rocky reef fish.
The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered ...
Beside the manicured lawn at Cragmont Elementary, a Berkeley Hills school overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a small hillside patch of tangled trees and weeds—coyote brush, sage brush, wood rose, ...
Point Blue researchers Amanda Spears, Jeannie Johnson, and Meredith Elliott introduce the seals of the Farallon Islands and their diets (hint: the research involves seal scat!). This talk builds on ...
A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii), one widespread native bee, comes to land on a flower. (Photo courtesy of Nathalie Bonnet) One hot day last year, Sung Lee, an East Bay beekeeper who ...