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FrankenDelta The plethora of problems plaguing the Delta-a crashing ecosystem, crumbling levees, and politicians and a public who don't understand the landscape-have visions of a different, more sustainable Delta dancing in some scientists' heads. A large, open body of water resembling Chesapeake Bay. A Delta that is fresher in the spring and sometimes in the winter, and saltier in the fall. A Delta re-connected with flows from both of its rivers; one not treated as an isolated system but as the linchpin of a 60,000-square-mile watershed. Yet any discussion of a different Delta seems to lead to a discussion of a Delta circumvented by pipes, carrying freshwater flows around it . . . »Read More

Luring Terns How do you convince thousands of seabirds that they're in the wrong place? »Read More CIO2 to the Rescue In the upper atmosphere, ozone blocks ultraviolet radiation while in the lower layers, it contributes to smog and greenhouse . . . »Read More The Delta Fish Decline: What Does It Mean for Public Policy? Delta pelagic fish populations have been crashing for several decades. Since the millennium, that decline may have taken a turn for the worse . . . »Read More Chlorinated Clues Dead fish in Strawberry Creek, a broken water line, and elevated chlorine levels made for a real-world version of the game Clue . . . »Read More Habitat for Habitat It wasn't a perfect weapon, but the herbicide glyphosate-trade name Aquamaster, an aquatic version of Roundup . . . »Read More Eco-City San Francisco Few San Francisco residents realize that 12 species of native berries still grow on the north slope of Mount Davidson . . . »Read More Marsh (Or Homes) Imminent The fight to save one of the last stretches of privately owned salt marsh along San Pablo Bay may finally be coming to an end . . . »Read More Urban Rivers 101 "Nature bats last if she doesn't come first," said Ann Riley, S.F. Regional Board, emphasizing the lesson policymakers must learn ... »Read More Pesticide No Panacea Pyrethroids - a family of synthetic substances derived from toxins found in chrysanthemums . . . »Read More

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