
Bay Nature Magazine recently featured our director, David Helvarg, and highlighted our “green jewel” of the San Francisco East Bay Area. Point Molate, located on the San Pablo Peninsula in Richmond, CA, is steeped in history. Once home to Winehaven, one of the world’s largest wineries before Prohibition, the site transitioned to a naval fuel…
Alaska is experiencing warming at two to three times the global average due to a phenomenon called “Arctic amplification.” This accelerated warming is causing permafrost, which covers 85% of the state, to degrade. As it thaws, it releases large amounts of methane—a greenhouse gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide—into the atmosphere, exacerbating global…

Just up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict (the city just reached a $550-million settlement with Chevron to mitigate health…

Increased oil traffic between Russia and China through the Arctic Circle is putting Alaska Native communities at an elevated risk for an oil spill. Climate change, compounded by conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, threatens an oil disaster off the coast of Alaska, potentially devastating Indigenous communities and the nation’s richest fishing grounds. This danger arises…

When I first snorkeled off of Key West as a teenager back in 1966, Florida’s coral reef was estimated to have 90 percent live cover—a multi-hued array of fan, brain, pillar and elkhorn corals, shoaling fish, grazing sea turtles, and hammerhead sharks that stretched from Palm Beach to the Dry Tortugas seventy miles west of…
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