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From skunks to peacocks: The Bay Area animal stories that cheered us up this year FacebookTwitterEmail From sheep to raccoons, animals kept us entertained with their antics this year.Blair Heagerty / SFGATE 2020 was a weird year. Even the animals agree. It started with a flood of "nature is healing, we are the virus" memes after some bogus news about dolphins returning to Venice canals went viral, and ended with ... COVID-infected zombie mink rising from mass graves in Denmark? Yikes. But it was the antics of birds, bears and raccoons that brought us comfort, laughter and amazement in this wi...

Geoff Ellsworth I want to check in with our community as we move into the holiday season and forge ahead through the latest challenges of COVID-19. Through all of the challenges of 2020, we have worked together as a community and become stronger and more caring. We can keep moving forward together to make this the most meaningful holiday season ever and keep working together to see each other through whatever challenges we face. Regarding COVID-19, we know everyone is tired and the recent uncertainty regarding shut downs just makes it harder. We know this next month or two is crit...

Special Report 12 California wines that define 2020 These wines, which make up a case, are not only delicious — they tell the story of what happened with wine in this tumultuous year By Esther Mobley |  Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 9:23 AM 2020 has been an earth-shattering year for the American wine world. And it would have been even without the coronavirus. Major fires plowed through some of California’s most prestigious terroir, destroying wineries and threatening an unprecedented volume of wine grapes with the insidious malady of smoke taint. The nationwide reckoning with racial in...

Evacuating Santa Cruz County’s homeless amid disaster presents a difficult task [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.] Dec. 13—SANTA CRUZ — When it comes to disaster response, the public’s immediate focus in the moment often is on safe evacuations. Safe escape planning and timely evacuation notice were prominent among resident concerns expressed during a town hall meeting last month related to the dangers of mixing pending winter rainfall and the devastation wrought by the CZU August Lightning Complex fires. Santa Cruz County Assistant Director of Public Works Ken Edler said debris flows, the ...

Print This is the Dec. 10, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. More than 111 million acres of U.S. wilderness have been designated since 1964, when the Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson. It’s the highest level of protection the federal government offers, ensuring that wild lands remain free of permanent roads, motor vehicles, commercial enterprise and structures of any kind. The law’s definition of wilderness is the stuff of legend: “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where...