Our shared legacy of the night sky Life on Earth has a lot in common. Together we have evolved under consistent cycles of day and night. These rhythms are deeply intertwined with our most important behaviors and biological functions. Today, one...

By Aneri Shah Scientists have proposed the idea of conserving 50 percent of the Earth's natural landscapes as a crucial step to combat the alarming loss of biodiversity. This concept has gained significant attention and support globally, with...

By Eileen McLaughlin Aiden Chen, 15 year old student, artist and Loma Prieta Chapter volunteer, has a passion for birds and worries about their welfare as sea levels rise due to the progressive impacts of climate change. Aiden has found a fun...

By Norman La Force Point Molate’s future as a regional park just became more real after a major victory in court. Sierra Club, SPRAWLDEF, Citizens for Eastshore Parks, the Point Molate Alliance, and individual petitioners sued the City of...

For years the volunteers and staff of your Loma Prieta Chapter’s Bay Alive Campaign, in collaboration with the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society and the Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge, have been hard at work advocating to make Sunnyvale’...

Dani Zacky One year ago last September, our Bay and shorelines were filled with the carcasses of dead fish, and our water was tinted a murky reddish brown. The sheer size and intensity of last year’s algae bloom and fish die-off is not easy to...

By Norman La Force In July, Golden Gate Fields, the horse racing track on the Albany shoreline, announced it would be closing its doors for good sometime within the next year. While this may come as bad news to the dollar hotdog enthusiast, it’s...

By Dani Zacky In the summer of 2022, an unprecedented toxic algae bloom hit San Francisco Bay, killing innumerable fish and other marine creatures. Now, the toxic bloom is back. Algae blooms are triggered by the discharge of nitrogen...

By Dani Zacky View the map online now at bit.ly/KingTidesStoryMap. This winter, King Tides hit the Bay Area, causing immense flooding that acted to foretell the impacts of sea level rise in our communities. Our Chapter and the...

By Dani Zacky With rising global temperatures and this winter’s bout of heavy rains and flooding, sea level rise has been at the top of many of our minds. Like other climate change impacts, sea level rise will disproportionately affect...