It was the middle of a triple-digit heat wave in the hottest July ever recorded in Bakersfield, California. Bat biologist ...

In the early 1980s, Francisco Chavez returned to his natal homeland in Peru with his Duke University doctoral adviser, Richard Barber. Like many biologists studying ocean life, Barber had a case of ...

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind.

There is nothing quite like witnessing the rapture of a toddler waddling into waves for the first time. I expected nothing less from my daughter, who swam inside of me for 10 months and was conceived ...

A year ago, Bay Nature editor in chief Victoria Schlesinger asked us to guest-edit this issue while she took some time off to recharge. This is not an easy publication to temp for! It is an incredible ...

A black-tailed deer grazing at the edge of the staging area seems barely aware of visitors arriving to hike the Coyote Creek Parkway, a popular multiuse path in San Jose. Even when a car pulls in ...