Oceanography

Go Fish: S.F.'s Coastal Foraging King Shows How to Fish (and Eat) Locally

Watching the Act of Watching

Dead Sea

An unpublished study shows the surprisingly lethal effects of the Cosco Busan oil spill. Why are government scientists helping the ship's owner keep it a secret?

Oyster Lovers Unite

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Last Night: Cal Academy of Sciences Press Preview

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Bush to California: screw you and your ocean

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Crowns

Serious hattitude, courtesy of this charming musical play about headwear

Danny Cohen

We're All Gunna Die

Best Surf Break

We're All Gunna Die

Blowup

The true age of shock and awe, seen in 100 photos of nuclear explosions

Russian Roulette

The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

Fins

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

36,000 Feet Under the Sea

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.