Remembering a legend in Santa Cruz
Kayaker tussles with shark outside Steamer Lane, city takes action
Oceana, a non-profit ocean conservation and advocacy organization, sued the Trump Administration for withdrawing a proposed rule that would protect certain marine life from getting tangled in drift gillnets.
San Rafael, CA - VIDEO: The Sausalito-based nonprofit has rescued, rehabilitated and released more than 20,000 marine mammals since opening in 1975.
Federal and state regulations stretching back 40 years have curtailed pollution and repaired the marine food web that includes white sharks (formerly called great white sharks).
Salmon fishing holds “best-of-year” type prospects, thanks to a special trucking program that transported 12 million juvenile salmon from a fish hatchery in Shasta County to the bay.
After farming shellfish in Humboldt Bay since the 1950s, the largest shellfish producer in the state Coast Seafoods Company could be gone by next month following a consequential California Coastal Commission decision in June, according to Humboldt Bay
Watch out, whale watchers! This particular season is being hailed as “some of the best whale watching in history” as record numbers of the mammoth marine mammals are turning up on Northern California’s Pacific coast. But the uptick in whales has also meant an uptick in whale collisions these last two weeks, like the kiteboarder who slammed into a whale, a boat colliding with a whale, and now video of another near-miss in which a whale of a move saves this humpback from becoming beach fodder.
Crabbers, seafood processors and state biologists agree that the most recent Dungeness crab season, which ended June 30 south of Mendocino County and will wrap up next week to the north, is above average.
Last year 71 whales became entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast, the highest number ever recorded.
An average day in the water for a kiteboarder in California became a memorable one when he boarded straight over the back of a humpback whale.
National marine sanctuaries and monuments -- from California to New England -- could lose protections under a Trump plan to expand offshore oil and gas drilling.
If you care about preserving California's marine sanctuaries, you have until July 26 to contact the Department of Commerce.
Breaching humpbacks, perky kingfishers, iridescent dolphinfish and perpetually cute sea otters are just a few of the 34 species of marine mammals, 180 types of birds and over 500 fish species that call the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary home.
A federal court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the approval of fracking in federal waters off California.
The state’s proposal to build twin tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta cleared another hurdle last month, but opponents still believe that better options exist.
President Trump and his approach to environmental protection, conservation, and science—it’s about as antediluvian as anyone could have imagined. While there’s some comfort in knowing California will continue to blaze its own trail on environmental issues, Washington, D.C.’s financial tentacles into our state, though not always obvious, are important. Federal agencies and the funding they bring to the San Francisco Bay Area are critical to our local environment in myriad and veiled ways. More than 150,000 acres of land in our region falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, while our national marine sanctuaries help protect one of the most biologically productive shorelines in the world.
The state plans to boost streamflows in the troubled San Joaquin River by amending hundreds of water rights. It hopes settlement deals will avoid a showdown, but will they produce enough water to h...
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded just broke off from Larsen C ice shelf—the third fracture on the Antarctic Peninsula in just over two decades.
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded just broke off from Larsen C ice shelf—the third fracture on the Antarctic Peninsula in just over two decades.
A push by Dell and Adrian Grenier to raise awareness of ocean problems while trying to find a use for floating plastic trash.
An unusual scene has been playing out at Ocean Beach over the past few weeks.
Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, according to a biodiversity report.
Global climatic change hurts the animal kingdom disproportionately — and now animals are doing something about it
Common swifts spend nearly a year on the wing and will travel the distance of seven round-trip journeys to the moon in their lifetimes.
