Michael Pierson, a naturalist for the nonprofit eco-tourism organization Oceanic Society, has traveled from the San Francisco coast to the Farallon Islands many times during peak whale-watching season ...

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 ...

(BCN) — A seismic sensor station on the remote Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco was upgraded with new sensors in January and February, according to an announcement from the University ...

A group of biologists working at the Farallon Islands got to see an extremely rare event: whales hunting other whales. The incident happened at about 8:30 a.m. Aug. 22, when scientists with Point Blue ...

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 ...

A seismic sensor station on the remote Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco was upgraded with new sensors in January and February, according to an announcement from the University of ...

Michael Pierson wasn’t sure what he might find when he ventured out from the San Francisco coast toward the Farallon Islands on a whale-watching tour with the Oceanic Society last month. The ...