Cedar Pond is one of the most degraded ponds in Orleans. Based on recent public discussion one would think that the only cause of this ecological mess has been cormorants - where they choose to roost ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

For the millions of travelers whose planes land here each year, the salt ponds of the San Francisco Bay appear like some checker-board artwork, their chartreuse to orange-red hues shimmering at the ...

This salty pond in Tully freezes, but temperatures near the bottom can be 80 degrees in the winter. Federal geologists studied the pond to see if similar ponds could be used to heat homes. (United ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- An October court ruling has placed a key piece of San Francisco Bay Shoreline, the Cargill salt ponds, back on the restoration agenda for local environmental advocacy ...

A water control structure at the former salt pond near Alviso was officially opened Wednesday, enabling managers to open 1,400 acres of former salt ponds to tidal action. The gates at the former ...

FREMONT, Calif. — Environmentalists and developers have been battling for years over the fate of a salt production site on prime south San Francisco Bay real estate. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers’ ...

The evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea produce both sodium chloride and potassium salts. The pond size, and thus salt production, has expanded substantially in response to global ...

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East Bay Regional Park District acquired 77-acres of Hayward shoreline on Tuesday for tidal marsh restoration after its ...