Blog Post: February 4, 2020
Future sea level rise poses a major threat to Alameda, a low-lying island in San Francisco Bay. Alameda’s shoreline neighborhoods will face a high risk of flooding, and rising tides could wash pollution into the Bay from contaminated shoreline sites.
That’s why Baykeeper advocated for the Alameda...
Column: February 1, 2020
On January 10-12, high tides in San Francisco Bay washed up onto the shoreline of a large former pharmaceutical company in Richmond. A few hours later, the outgoing tide pulled contamination—including pesticides, toxic chemicals, and radioactive waste—off the industrial land and into the Bay. ...
BK In The News: December 16, 2019
Environmentalists sued a San Francisco Bay Area city Monday to stop the construction of a luxury apartment complex in an area comprised of sensitive wetlands susceptible to a rising sea... A consortium of environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society and the San Francisco...
Blog Post: May 17, 2019
The Bay’s tides are projected to rise 5 feet within the next generation. That means the wetlands and marshes resting right at the waterline are vulnerable. They will be among the first areas to suffer severe flooding due to sea level rise.
In these sensitive shoreline spots, native birds make...
Blog Post: February 4, 2019
In spite of the existential threat posed by climate change, the fossil fuel industry continues to push relentlessly for expansions—more oil, more coal, more dirty emissions. And the Bay Area is no exception.
The oil company Phillips 66 recently received approval to process more crude oil at its...
Featured Stories: January 14, 2019
Sea levels are expected to rise in San Francisco Bay by at least three feet over the next 80 years. Many people around the Bay Area, including those working for local governments responsible for shoreline adaptation, don’t know what that will mean.
ShoreView, a new way of viewing the Bay using...
Blog Post: December 3, 2018
The projections for sea level rise in the coming decades are dire. Around San Francisco Bay, rising tides threaten to flood toxic sites, damage infrastructure, and submerge important habitat areas.
In 2015, Baykeeper launched an innovative project with funding from Google to digitally map the Bay’...
Blog Post: November 12, 2018
Numerous industrial facilities—including oil refineries, shipyards, and manufacturing plants—surround San Francisco Bay, as well as over 1,000 inactive sites contaminated with hazardous waste.
Many of these sites already release pollution into the Bay. Sea level rise will amplify the contamination...
Column: October 2, 2018
San Francisco Bay’s water level is expected to rise over the coming decades. Even using the moderate estimates of three feet over the next eighty years, the resulting damage could resemble the recent hurricane-caused havoc on the East Coast.
Scientists estimate the cost in the Bay Area of a major...
Press Release: October 1, 2018
(San Francisco Bay, CA) – Sea levels are expected to rise in San Francisco Bay by at least three feet over the next 80 years. Many people around the Bay Area, including those working for local governments responsible for shoreline adaptation, don’t know what that will mean.
ShoreView, a new way...