SF News Nearly Entire Staff at Bay Institute Up and Quits Over a Book Being Published Without the Authors' Consent An academic controversy has torn apart the 43-year-old environmental nonprofit the Bay Institute, with nearly the whole staff quitting because the president is publishing a book against their wishes.
SF News East Bay Water Utility Warns That High Volume of Sewage Overflowed Amid Recent Rains, Possibly Into Bay A Bay Area environmental group called on the East Bay Municipal Utility District to upgrade its sewage systems after the utility said last week that it had several "sanitary sewer spills."
SF News Toxic Ash Looms As Ongoing Health Hazard In Wake Of North Bay Fires The collective North Bay wildfires have moved on from emergency response to the investigation and cleanup phases, as displaced individuals return to their homes to assess the damage done. Chemists and biologists are
SF News Thousands Of Leopard Sharks Found Dead In SF Bay The California Department of Fish and Wildlife revealed that as many as 2,000 leopard sharks have died in the San Francisco Bay over the past few months. But, they said that due
SF News As Bay Turns Brown With Sediment, Some Environmentalists (And Swimmers) Fear Pollution Oh #SFBay, you so dirty! ❤ this news! San Francisco Bay turns brown after nonstop storms https://t.co/9U26n7ACLR via @SFGate @bayareamoms— Erica Maharg (@BackwardGraham) February 15, 2017 Anne Sasaki of San Francisco
SF News Mussels In SF Bay Found To Contain Liver-Damaging Toxin Anyone who has wandered San Francisco's waterfront has likely seen the men and women, poles and nets in hand, who fish from the city's many piers. And just as likely, they've also seen
SF News Study: River Diversions Have Totally Screwed The San Francisco Bay The San Francisco Bay and all forms of life that depend upon it are in trouble. So declares a new study from The Bay Institute which finds that upstream water diversions have removed
SF News Got Dirt? To Fight Sea Level Rise, Bay Area Marshland Projects Seeking Lots Of Mud Landing at SFO can be a pretty, if sometimes harrowing experience (short runway). A nice distraction: The salt marshes that form a quilt of various umbers around the southern part of SF Bay.
SF News Pilot Behind Massive SF Bay Oil Spill Fails In Attempt To Regain Mariner's License The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a federal judge's 2013 decision rejecting a claim made by the pilot behind the massive 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill that his mariner's license had been improperly
SF News Oakland Takes On Monsanto In Billion Dollar PCB Pollutant Case For 50 years, St. Louis-based chemical company Monsanto contaminated the San Francisco Bay with its production of the highly toxic chemical polychlorinated biphenyl, a.k.a. PCBs. The company continued manufacturing the chemical
SF News Dutch Scientists' Escape From Alcatraz Simulator Shows How Escapees May Have Survived As dramatized in Escape From Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood, three prisoners famously fled the "inescapable" island prison by raft in 1962, never to be seen again. The film draws on evidence of debris
SF News Man's Body Found Floating In San Francisco Bay The body of a man found floating face down in the San Francisco Bay has yet to be identified, officials said Thursday morning. At about 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the San
SF News The Mysterious Google Barge Is Now The Fancy Google Sailboat In the latest news surrounding the mysterious Google Barge floating on the bay near Treasure Island, the Chronicle's mustachioed duo have finally cracked the story wide open. (We always knew you had it
SF News Barge Leaking Fuel Into S.F. Bay According to the Chronicle, "A barge got mired today in the shallow waters near the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco and is leaking some fuel into the bay." The sand transportation
SF News Eastshore State Park Wins 'Best Urban Retreat' Ocean Oscar The Nature Conservancy, "the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people," picked their top favorite coastal lands in which to "soak in
misc Photo du Jour 594 On this seemingly sluggish news day, local MSM outlets are all aflutter over cranes under a bridge.
SF News Oil Spills Into SF Bay While transferring oil from a barge to an oil tanker a little after 6:30 a.m. this morning, oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay this morning, leaving a big sheen. (Ugh.
SF News Mud from 1800s Finally Washing Out of Bay We came across this curiosity in the Chron this a.m.: several generations worth of free-floating sediment, upon which several pieces of the SF Bay's ecosystem depends, has finally washed out to sea
SF News Man Falls from Container Ship, Dies A little after 5 a.m. this morning, a man aboard a container ship making its way into the Oakland Outer Harbor fell overboard. Found by the ship's crew and taken to to
SF News Let Them Eat Oysters, Says Feinstein Going head to head with the Wilderness Act and righteous green folk, Senator Dianne Feinstein reformulated a bill that would allow Drakes Bay Oyster Co., California's largest commercial shellfish farm, to continue farming
misc Today in San Francisco History - San Francisco gets its name Timecapsule: January 30, 1847 Yerba Buena That was the name given to the tiny bayside settlement back in 1835, a name taken from the wild mint growing on the sand dunes that surrounded
misc Today in San Francisco History - Mary Ann Patten, Heroine of Cape Horn Timecapsule: November 15, 1856 We ran across this little item while looking for something else altogether, and couldn't resist passing along such an amazing and (almost) ready-for-Hollywood story. It was the era of
SF News Angel Island Fire The U.S. Coast Guard and San Francisco/Marin firefighters are battling a blaze on the eastside of Angel Island, which was reported at 9 p.m. tonight. At about 9:50 p.
SF News Capsized Mariners Rescued By Coast Guard in SF Bay Four commercial fishermen were rescued today after their 35-foot commercial fishing boat, christened "Reward," capsized 50 yards off of Pier 45 today. Fortunately, as a response boat from the Coast Guard Station was
SF News Richmond Hazardous Toluene Spill Update Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water: Initial reports indicated that a very minimal amount of the substance, now confirmed to be Toluene, was able to reach
