The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

San Francisco Bay is truly a treasure ... soft-bodied sea creatures, and even birds that dwell by the sea. Mature, larger white sharks even prey on seals, sea lions, and orcas.

We've built a campaign to re-establish a unique backbarrier lagoon habitat at Sharp Park in Pacifica, California — public land that's a significant habitat for the garter snake as well as its ...

The university's provost said it can't have “so much of our resources flowing in a direction that doesn't serve our ...

On the cliffs above Kirby Beach, with its secret oceanfront campground, just north of San Francisco ... More than a dozen different birds of prey species migrate through the area by the thousands ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco ... and prey availability. The Marine Mammal Center has tracked at least 18 individual whales swimming in the bay this ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the San Francisco Bay population of longfin smelt as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The formerly ...