The inclinations that have, repeatedly, caused spiders to evolve the ability to balloon also make spiders difficult livestock ...

Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land ...

A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Iwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...

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On July 27, 2017 this story was announced as a finalist for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 2017 Communication Awards. Every year, as summer turns to fall, the mouse ...

We’re peering down into a ravine carved out by Lagunitas Creek, looking for North American river otters. According to official California Department of Fish and Wildlife records, last updated in 1995, ...

Pistachio orchards, like these at Gilkey Ranch near Five Points, California, are producing the nut of the future, say farmers, because the crop goes dormant during drought and demands less water and ...

In late October 1769, a group of bedraggled Spanish soldiers arrived overland in the territory of the Quiroste Indians on the San Mateo coast. Motivated by news of the encroaching Russian fur trade, ...

One early summer morning in 2018, Jon Holcomb steered his fishing boat out of Noyo Harbor, just south of Fort Bragg, and headed toward Caspar Point, a jagged promontory along the rocky Mendocino coast ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. (Lisa M. Krieger) In the gently rolling ...

Amid the din of humming electric motors and gurgling laboratory aquarium tanks, life, new and precious, has been born. “Aren’t they so cute?” says Rachael Karm, a Sonoma State University research ...