A 435-acre pond previously used for salt harvesting has been turned into a tidal marsh just north of Mountain View's Shoreline Park.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

The ponds, noted for their vivid colors ranging from magenta to blue green, are especially visible from the air. The colors come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the different ...

Conservationists and environmental groups on Friday marked the completion of a $20 million restoration project in Mountain View that transformed a 435-acre former salt pond, along with an adjacent ...

FREMONT, Calif. — Environmentalists and developers have been battling for years over the fate of a salt production site on prime south San Francisco Bay real estate. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers’ ...

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 have been ...

“Where some of the ponds once were, the locations were now flooded with seawater,” joSon told me. In place of the neon colors of industrial salt ponds, he began noticing “thousands of pearl-like brown ...