The dramatic footage of a huge cargo ship colliding with a bridge near Baltimore and causing it to collapse like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie riveted people around the world Tuesday. In the Bay Area, where dozens of large cargo ships, oil tankers, cruise ships and other vessels sail in and out of … Read more
To the cheers of distant onlookers, a yellow excavator sliced through a dirt levee to open a long-captive 19th century industrial salt pond to the wild San Francisco Bay on Wednesday morning, allowing tidal waters to gush in to a 300-acre future marsh in Menlo Park. The project – part of the largest wetlands restoration … Read more
Pathfinder 1 during outdoor flight operations testing at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, November 8, 2023. LTA A giant, high-tech airship that’s been described as a “Goodyear blimp on steroids” has taken flight over the Bay Area. The 400-foot-long, helium-filled Pathfinder 1, built by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s research company LTA (which stands for Lighter Than … Read more