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What a nose knows.| Bay Nature
When you’re cruising below the clouds at 3,000 feet, the Bay Area is just far away enough to still look familiar. Unlike flying commercial, says pilot Mark Dedon, a small aircraft allows you to keep the details in view—useful for counting birds, or tracking an island fox. Or, if you’re off the clock, just to look around.| Bay Nature
The Xerces blue, long gone from San Francisco, became a symbol of the fight against extinctions. Now scientists are sending in a replacement. Will it take?| Bay Nature
Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.| Bay Nature
“Long-term monitoring isn’t sexy,” says one source. But this data is how we know what is happening to the planet.| Bay Nature
I was running through my neighborhood the other day when I stopped to say hello to a cat I had never met before.| Bay Nature
Climate change is already costing us a bundle. Proponents say this measure will save money in the long run. Opponents call it a ‘hodgepodge.’| Bay Nature
It was the middle of a triple-digit heat wave in the hottest July ever recorded in Bakersfield, California. Bat biologist Erika Noel stepped beneath a freeway overpass along State Route 178, and the air felt like an oven. Forty feet above, clustered among five joints of the bridge, were thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emitting their trademark musk—an odor laced with the smell of ammonia and corn chips.| Bay Nature
