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This article is from bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and regeneration powered by the California Academy of Sciences. I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

Yellowfin gobies, washed up on Lake Merritt's shore at the height of the bloom. (Courtesy of Damon Tighe) “That’s the million dollar question for people that study phytoplankton — why now, and why ...