Nature and the Environment

Peking Duck-Style Squirrel Pancakes: Is The World Ready?

Peking Duck-Style Squirrel Pancakes: Is The World Ready?

What's Not On The Menu: Sea Turtle Eggs

What's Not On The Menu: Sea Turtle Eggs

Save Sheldon

Pollution Absolution

A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

Mother Nature or Nurture?

The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

Empty Nest

Ever since the owner of the Owl Tree bar died, things just haven't been the same

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

Mean People's Court

On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

A Pigeon Noir

On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

Miracle on Ice

The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

Glorious Sea

Brosnan's narration can't mar Deep Blue's gorgeous ocean footage

Animal Crackers

In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam

Floundering

Cruel, vapid, and unfunny, this Shark bites

A Bacon and Ants Sandwich, Please

With a side order of sweet and sour silkworms

The Lion King

It's a visual feast -- with appalling songs by Tim Rice and Elton John

Up in the Air, Mr. Birdman

Telegraph Hill is home to a flock of wild parrots -- and one wild parrot guy

Shameless Display

S.F. goes artsy-fartsy

Mexican Magic

A show full of dream states, animal spirits, and fantastical realism

Best Place to Take a Kid for a Meal

Rainforest Café

The Nature of Politics

Dog owners, compliant pols viciously distort a reasonable attempt to preserve our environmental legacy

Best Use of Trash

The Sanitary Fill Co.

Beetle Mania

The intense joy of mounting a worthy bug in proper fashion

In the Night Kitchen

Night Monkey

Cottontales

A week of hare-raising adventures with the rabbit people and the bunny lady

Hunting With Hawks

The trials and satisfaction of falconry in 21st-century America

Letters to the Editor

Ring Master; Salt in the Wound; S.F.: 237, N.Y.: 1

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

The Unlikely Environmentalists

International environmentalists claim they stopped a Mexican salt plant that endangered the gray whale. Actually, though, the Mexican government canceled the plant for reasons of its own.

The New Economy

The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

Songs of Science

If you don't know birds have accents, you haven't been attending your birdsong symposia

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

Running on Empty

Detroit automakers have spent millions attempting to unplug California's effort to put electric cars on the road. And so far, Detroit's succeeding.

Chlorine, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Trichloroethylene, Beryllium, Nickel, PCBs ...

Even if radioactivity were ignored, Hunters Point Shipyard would be one of the planet's most polluted properties

Dying Breeds

Siberian Eskimos on the edge of the Earth and the brink of starvation saved their lives and their culture by reviving the lost tradition of whale hunting. Now they worry the gray whales are poisoned.

Devil Fish

Fierce prey. Spiritual brother. Ecological bellwether. The majestic gray whale inspires awe, conflict, and troubling environmental questions from the icy seas of Russia to the warm lagoons of Baja.

The Battle for Walpert Ridge

A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

What's Come Around

'Tis the season for Cosmic Justice for Japanese whale eaters, and many, many S.F. politicos

Best Exotic Blossom

Puya alpestris

Fins

Just when you thought it was safe to flag down the waiter, a storm brews over shark fin soup.

Animal Magnetism

Seal Lion 10th Anniversary

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

Night Crawler

To the Farallones

Industry: Pheasant Fad

To the Farallones

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Night Crawler

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Zoom Lens

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law