Resembling penguins with their tuxedo-like plumage and upright position when on land, common murres have called the ...

The wild and remote Farallon Islands, 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco, offer daily proof of nature’s ebbs and flows. The changes, unseen by most, are dramatic. California sea lions have moved ...

FARALLON ISLANDS, Calif. -- Visitors wishing to see the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge can now skip the 30-mile boat ride to the islands and instead watch from their home thanks to a new webcam ...

A U.S. government agency is proposing using 1.5 tons of rat poison to limit the spread of an invasive rodent problem in the Farallon Islands, located 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco. The U.S.

For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...

On a clear day, you can stand on Ocean Beach and see the jagged outline of San Francisco’s westernmost point peeking out over the horizon. There hadn’t been clear days in quite some time as California ...

The California Coastal Commission will weigh in on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan at what’s expected to be a marathon meeting Dec. 16. California Coastal Commissioners are expected to hold a ...

The Farallon Islands, 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, has a huge rodent problem and the federal government has a solution. But it will come at a cost to other wildlife and the food chain.

The Biden administration is doubling down on a plan to airdrop tons of poison-laced bait on the Farallon Islands near the Golden Gate to eradicate invasive house mice that have overrun the seabird ...

A federal plan to airdrop 1.5 tons of poison pellets on the South Farallon Islands to eradicate thousands of havoc-wreaking mice was put on hold on Wednesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ...

The Farallon Islands, which lies 30 miles west of San Francisco, is closed to the public. But it is home to approximately 350,000 birds in one of the largest seabird colonies outside of Hawaii and ...