San Francisco Bay waters reach salt pondOn Wednesday, it was 350 acres of former salt ponds that are now destined to become wildlife-rich marshes. Earlier in the week, another levee was breached ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency misapplied the law and its own regulations when it determined last year that vast salt ponds slated for redevelopment south of San Francisco are exempt from ...

Flying in or out of the Bay Area, you may have noticed San Francisco Bay’s colorful salt ponds from above. Otherwise, many of the ponds, which cover approximately 16,500 acres of the bay and ...

HAYWARD — When the state and federal government paid Cargill Salt $100 million for more than 15,000 acres of industrial salt ponds ringing San Francisco Bay in 2003, the purchase was heralded as ...

But it begins in San Francisco Bay. Salty water from the bay is captured in vast ponds, where it starts to evaporate because of heat from the sun and drying by the wind. At first, the ponds are green ...

Behind locked gates leading to the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, federal biologists will quietly set in motion Monday one of the nation's most ambitious projects to return developed ...

About two years ago, Bay Area voters passed Measure AA, a regional $12 per year parcel tax, by nearly 70 percent. You might remember it as the “Clean and Healthy Bay” ballot measure. It’s goal is to ...

If you have flown into San Francisco, you may have noticed a colorful patchwork of segregated ponds in the Bay. These colors are thanks to some tiny microorganisms that thrive in salty conditions.

Two endangered species have returned to a nearly lifeless former salt pond in the southern San Francisco Bay, the first proof that the ambitious 30-year South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project is ...

Fight continues over future of Bay Area salt ponds "The tidal marshes around San Francisco Bay are doing a lot to benefit people and to benefit the environment. They sequester greenhouse gases.

Flying in or out of the Bay Area, you may have noticed San Francisco Bay’s colorful salt ponds from above. Otherwise, many of the ponds, which cover approximately 16,500 acres of the bay and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A Justice Department lawyer urged a federal judge Thursday to uphold the Trump administration’s finding that vast salt ponds slated for redevelopment along the San Francisco Bay ...