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1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (470+ words) Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue is asking Bay Area drivers who recently returned from the mountains to check their vehicles after two yellow-bellied marmots were found in the region. Both animals are recovering at the rescue center, and their origins have…...

2+ day, 5+ hour 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, 6+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ 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, 5+ 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…...

3+ week, 5+ 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…...