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Could the evacuation of an a cliffside apartment building in Pacifica have been prevented? The city says coastal erosion on private property is not their responsibility.

The California gull population in the San Francisco Bay Area has increased by 900 percent since the birds began breeding on bayside salt ponds in 1980. Fueled by easy access to trash at local landfills and parking lots, their unnatural population growth has placed neighboring waterbird species in peril, according to biologists.

A team of Dutch researchers tells Bay Area planners it’s time to act now to prevent flooding from sea level rise over the next 100 years.

For the San Francisco Bay Area, a secure water future means thinking big – including a giant new tunnel to carry water 100 feet below the bottom of the Bay. Parts of the system that supply water to 2.5 million residents are nearly 100 years old – and fixing them won’t come cheap, as locals are soon to discover.

Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world’s best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation’s hives.

For Americans who are upgrading their televisions in time for the digital conversion on February 17, getting rid of the old analog clunker in the basement may be an afterthought.

Salt ponds and snowy plovers: A tour of the largest – and costliest – wetland restoration project in California on the verge of its groundbreaking.