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Fever Breaks on Mercury Shoes that light up, greeting cards that play music, orange paint and crematoria... These are just a few of the surprising items harboring mercury - a heavy metal very much at large in the Bay-Delta environment and fast accumulating in the food chain. Efforts to thwart this contamination are heating up, as government and stakeholders up and down the Estuary wrangle over objectives, science and regulations ... »Read More

Summer No Vacation for Smelt Nature, California's relentless thirst and human error conspired to make the early summer of 1999 a particularly deadly one for Delta smelt ... »Read More Bay History by the Mound The fact that shopping malls and parking lots may soon bury two of the Estuary's historic shellmounds heightened the already palpable level of interest ... »Read More Little Bunny Blues Even with the recent discovery of a new population in the upper Delta, the tiny riparian brush rabbit (sylvilagus bachmani riparius) remains the most endangered mammal ... »Read More No More Whole Hog Hydro Most of the state's hydropower projects were licensed 30-50 years ago, before their impacts on fish and flows became so apparent ... »Read More EBMUD vs. Sacramento et. al. - No End in Sight "The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same." That could be the motto of East Bay MUD's latest attempts to take water from the American River ... »Read More Ferry Brown-Out Is that solo driver stuck in rush hour traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge actually causing less air pollution than the commuter enjoying ... »Read More Bulletin Board INTERSEX MICE DISCOVERED AT KESTERSON yield further evidence that the presence of toxics in the environment ... »Read More