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Change Detection Made Easier with New Lidar Survey

A new high-resolution lidar dataset gives planners a powerful tool to track flooding, levees, and wetland changes across the estuary.

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Change Detection Made Easier with New Lidar Survey

A new high-resolution lidar dataset gives planners a powerful tool to track flooding, levees, and wetland changes across the estuary.

Is Placing Sediment in the Shallows to Feed Marshes Working?

After two years of monitoring, a project to place sediment in shallow water off Eden Landing appears to be boosting surrounding marshes.

Living Shorelines Test Run Reports Back

A landmark study reveals how oyster reefs and eelgrass can build habitat and fight sea level rise in San Francisco Bay — if scaled up fast enough.

Protecting Birds as Burlingame’s Iconic Trees Come Down

San Mateo County’s El Camino Real has long featured eucalyptus trees, but their roots are breaking up the road, and their bark is clogging drains.

More Signatures Needed to Save Bay Area Transit 

After witnessing fire disasters in neighboring counties, Marin formed a unique fire prevention authority and taxpayers funded it. Thirty projects and three years later, the county is clearer of undergrowth.

Stop Making Californians Pay for Corporate Pollution

States like New York and Vermont have already passed laws requiring companies to compensate the public for their pollution. California should be next.

The Race to Reinvent State Route 37

A sweeping plan to elevate SR 37 is underway, tackling chronic flooding, traffic congestion, and sea level rise while restoring Bay wetlands.

Journalism Fellowship Opportunities

Our magazine offers a variety of modest fellowships for journalists in training or community storytellers.

Plants Facilitate Transition to Higher Water

Save The Bay is restoring habitat transition zones with native plants to accommodate rising sea levels and support wildlife.

Hundreds Protest Proposed Cuts to San Francisco Environment Department 

Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office has introduced sweeping budget cuts for the next fiscal year, including reduced support for climate action.

El Cerrito Bets on Car-Free Living

An East Bay city is building more than 700 housing units on BART parking lots.

The Nuances of Tapping North Bay Sediment Supplies

How Adobe Creek and the Petaluma River can help three parcels, including a popular park, evolve into one resilient shore.

Meet the Oakland Biologist Making Native Plants Go Viral

Saumitra Kelkar shares videos about local biodiversity and native plants through his account, Oakland.bio.

Mountain View’s Shoreline Gets Serious SLR Attention

After four breaches, imports of clean fill, and the addition of rocks, bird islands and bridges the South Bay’s Shoreline Park has more climate resilient environs.

Adaptation Atlas

Thirty places to focus on nature-based adaptation around the Bay’s 400-mile shoreline.

Agroecology Commons Weathers a Weird Winter and Political Storms

A year after our first Agroecology Commons visit, the El Sobrante farm has a new greenhouse foundation, thriving farmer training program, and some unexpected wildlife.

Finding Community at the Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange 

A third of our food supply goes to waste, and Bay Area students are learning how to fix it one school cafeteria at a time.

Easy Spring Vegetables for Small Gardens

Snap peas and Tokyo turnips are hardy, cool-season vegetables well-suited to Bay Area gardens. Here’s how to grow and cook them.

At Canticle Farm, Food and Community Are Prayer for a Better World

On a residential street in East Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, a front yard becomes a food distribution network every Friday.

What Do Teens Think is Healthy Food?

Student reporting fellow Sachi Bansal asks three high school seniors in Fairfield about how they define healthy food, and what they think of the new food pyramid.