As the latest strain of avian influenza—Gs/GD HPAI, it’s called—spreads through the U.S., birds are not the only creatures the virus has felled.

“We don’t want to vilify the carriers,” says one expert. “They’re just doing their thing. They’re being ducks.”

In an open letter, they’re calling for California to consider making white sturgeon fishing catch-and-release for now.

“This little piece of five acres is going to do a lot to change the landscape of Oakland,” says Corrina Gould cofounder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

Our resident sturgeon have gizzards and razor-sharp armor, can live a century, and are under threat.

Climate change plus fungus could spell doom for the trees.

This clam makes its mark on the world at the rate of one millimeter per month.

Whales are coming to eat in the Bay, and big ships aren’t all slowing down for them. A new tool aims to change that.

Lookout Slough, 3,000 acres of former farmland, ranchland, and duck hunting grounds north and west of the Yolo Bypass West Levee, is slated to become the largest tidal wetland restoration project in the history of California.

Though many trees were severely damaged or killed by the blaze, most of Big Basin’s redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) survived.

The park drapes across the top of the tunnels containing roaring Highway 1, connecting the San Francisco Bay shoreline and restored tidal marshes to the rest of the Presidio.