A western snowy plover looks around at Limantour Beach in Point Reyes on May 15, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On an overcast morning in mid-April, biologist Maddy Schwarz parked her truck on a ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

East Bay Regional Park District acquired 77-acres of Hayward shoreline on Tuesday for tidal marsh restoration after its ...

The evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea produce both sodium chloride and potassium salts. The pond size, and thus salt production, has expanded substantially in response to global ...

It's rare for citizens to get a second chance to erase 150 years of environmental mistakes. But that's exactly what is happening at the salt ponds of San Francisco Bay. As a result of an agreement ...

The Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo County rise at top as the San Francisco Salt Ponds near Alviso in Santa Clara County shine colorfully in the afternoon sunshine on Monday. The ponds, noted for ...

One of the nation’s most ambitious environmental-restoration projects got under way Monday as officials began the yearslong process of turning industrial salt ponds on the edge of San Francisco Bay ...

Before tech became the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest export, salt was the primary industry. Eighty percent of the Bay’s natural wetlands were turned into salt mines, and they remain today dotting ...

Environmental groups and California sued the EPA over its finding that the Redwood City Salt Ponds south of San Francisco are not considered “waters of the United States” protected by the Clean Water ...

The ponds, noted for their vivid colors ranging from magenta to blue green, are especially visible from the air. The colors come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the different ...