4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (225+ words) As western monarch butterflies prepare to retreat to groves along the California coast for the winter, conservationists are asking the public to report sightings ahead of the annual count. "We invite Californians to help support monarch butterfly conservation by taking…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (748+ words) Efforts to eradicate them have been largely unsuccessful and even triggered a large population boom in 2014, when the crabs increased “30-fold after about 90 percent had been removed” from Seadrift Lagoon in Stinson Beach. There has been one unlikely hero in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1431+ words) Biocrusts both produce and reinforce soils, creating the foundation upon which everything else grows. It was well above 90 degrees the day I followed scientists out across the Needles district in Canyonlands National Park. As we stepped off the road, I…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (304+ words) Fans wait for Geese to take the stage at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. Part of Geese’s power comes from contrast, dynamics that shift from Max Bassin’s propulsive drumming on the song “Getting Killed…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (790+ words) Scientists say climate change, caused mainly by burning oil, coal and gas, is making the Mediterranean Sea hotter, bringing hundreds of new and invasive fish species that decimate indigenous populations. As biodiversity diminishes, coastal communities will struggle to make ends…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1130+ words) FILE: The Grizzly Giant at the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park. For people who love big trees, Yosemite National Park’s most iconic attraction is the Grizzly Giant. The roughly 2,900-year-old, 34,000-cubic-foot giant sequoia is the oldest…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (407+ words) The UNESCO meetings in Busan, which continue through next Wednesday, are reviewing dozens of other nominations, including the D-Day landing beaches in France, Mount Olympus in Greece and the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka-Fujiwara. While the World Heritage designation places…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (521+ words) For the first time in nearly a decade, fluffy Chilean flamingo chicks can be seen peeking out from under their parents' wings at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens. Over the past week, the zoo's flamingo flock increased by four…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (437+ words) SFGATE David and Sara LeBlanc had a rotating display of the roughly 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) ornaments decorating their Ogunquit lawn until the town deemed them to be impermissible advertising for their attached restaurant, The Omelette Factory The couple initially resisted the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (261+ words) SFGATE Repairs on the Mare Island Causeway Bridge have been held up following the discovery that rare birds are nesting in nearby marshland The California black rail, described as a secretive sparrow-sized bird, is listed as a threatened species -- meaning…...