14+ hour, 5+ min ago   (310+ words) Elegant terns arrive in big numbers at Crissy Marsh in San Francisco. Royal. Sandwich. Caspian. Elegant. These are the colorful names for different species of terns, some of San Francisco Bay’s most graceful seabirds. A wave of elegant terns — identifiable…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1000+ words) BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — Every year, 70,000 people flock to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to leave behind their worldly troubles and exist in a bubble that is Burning Man. Burning Man operates on 10 core principles, ranging from radical inclusion to leaving…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (214+ words) A new Steller sea lion has appeared on Pier 39’s K-Dock. Another Steller sea lion has appeared on Pier 39’s K-Dock — but it’s not the San Francisco tourist attraction’s Prius-sized “seal-ebrity” Chonkers. Sue Muzzin, a spokesperson for Pier 39, confirmed sightings of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1581+ words) FILE: Burning Man festival participants endure a dust storm on the playa within the Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nev. Burning Man is known for many things, but mild weather is not one of them. Last summer, the 70,000-person desert…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1116+ words) Cars are parked outside the Safeway in San Francisco’s Marina neighborhood. Hundreds of residents had gathered to discuss the controversial redevelopment of the Marina District Safeway into a mixed-use housing complex. Composed of two towers that rise up to 22 stories…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1204+ words) A giant pair of scissors along with 8-foot-tall dotted lines guiding where the massive shears should go was painted on the face of the 200-foot Matilija Dam in Ojai, Calif., in 2011. The dotted line runs from the top of the…...

3+ week, 2+ 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, 3+ day ago   (807+ words) A sea lion at La Jolla Cove Beach in San Diego, Calif. Just one month after a video went viral of a man abusing a sea lion at a popular San Diego cove, the California Coastal Commission is considering closing…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (810+ words) A sea lion at La Jolla Cove Beach in San Diego, Calif. Just one month after a video went viral of a man abusing a sea lion at a popular San Diego cove, the California Coastal Commission is considering closing…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (337+ words) Floodwaters covered roads in Marin County during king tides in January 2026. Top climate scientists in California are already warning of exceptionally high seas and coastal flooding this winter. Looking ahead, they see a confluence of three forces raising the ocean…...