BK In The News: August 1, 2023
San Francisco Baykeeper‘s field science team investigated reports to the organization’s pollution hotline and confirmed reddish brown (“tea colored”) waters in the Berkeley marina, and subsequently along the shores of Emeryville, Berkeley, and Albany. Following preliminary analyses, Baykeeper...
BK In The News: July 31, 2023
A toxic red tide has returned to San Francisco Bay, raising fears of a reprise of last summer’s unusually large fish die-off.
Experts report that harmful blooming algae was detected last weekend in rust-colored water samples from Emeryville, the Berkeley Marina, Albany and Marin County’s Richardson...
BK In The News: December 6, 2022
On Sunday August 28th, my phone blew up with reports of dead fish lining the shores of San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Baykeeper had been tracking a harmful “red tide” algae bloom since late-July. Given what we understood of the specific algae causing this bloom and the vast expanse of San...
BK In The News: November 30, 2022
When thousands of dead fish began washing up on Bay Area shores last August, the result of a harmful algae bloom, researchers were alarmed to see hundreds of sturgeon carcasses among the dead.
The Bay Area's population of the long, spiny fish which date back to the dinosaurs have already had a...
Column: November 1, 2022
Last month marked a special treat with the celebration of the Clean Water Act’s 50th birthday. Prior to October 18, 1972, concerned members of the public had few tools to fight the corporations that were polluting our communities and our environment, boaters were instructed to throw their trash...
BK In The News: October 5, 2022
The largest algal bloom to threaten San Francisco Bay in recent memory has finally receded, but the creature that triggered it still lurks in the bay’s blue waters, waiting for the right conditions to strike. Heterosigma akashiwo, an organism known to spawn red tides, turned the bay tea-brown this...
BK In The News: September 19, 2022
"You know, there is a unique opportunity now where the federal government and state governments have resources and are recognizing the decrepit state of our infrastructure, including our wastewater infrastructure. So, now's the time to, you know, begin to do those things we know we're going to have...
Column: September 15, 2022
A few years ago, during a strategic planning session, our legal and science teams brainstormed a list of 82 different threats to San Francisco Bay. As we evaluated where to focus Baykeeper’s resources, our staff scientist told us he believed the biggest threat to the Bay was nutrient pollution.
He...
BK In The News: September 14, 2022
Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore around the San Francisco Bay, including Oakland's Lake Merritt, amid a massive algae bloom that's spreading and killing. Scientist at San Franciso Baykeeper, Ian Wren, joined FOX Weather to discuss the deadly pileup.
BK In The News: September 14, 2022
Lake Merritt, in the center of Oakland, California, is a tidal estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. It usually teems with life, both human and marine. In early September, its 3-mile shoreline was bustling with joggers. But in the sunset-blackened waters, the gleaming white corpses of thousands...