As Rainy Winter Spreads Sudden Oak Death Pathogen, a Scientist Races to Build Resistance
A Berkeley researcher studies trees that survive what for most is a death sentence
Tag: UC Berkeley
The Boldness of Bewick’s Wrens
Bold Bewick's wrens are a welcome sight in the suburbs.
A Story About Once and Future California, Written in the Rings of Redwoods
Why would a scientist count a quarter of a million redwood tree rings?
The Livermore Tarweed Lives Happily Ever After
The Livermore tarweed is indistinct, hairy, and smelly. It is also exceedingly rare and in imminent danger.
A Landscape Shaped By Fear on Mount Diablo
What causes the strip of bare dirt between chaparral and grassland? A researcher tests the idea of a "scurry zone" on Mount Diablo.
Stalking the Elusive, Scientists Carry on Bowerman’s Mount Diablo Legacy
The 3,100-acre Morgan Fire provided opportunities for scientists. One of the main goals: to learn how plant and animal communities rebuild themselves after a major disturbance.
Occupiers restart debate on future of Gill Tract
On a typical spring day in early May at the Gill Tract, UC Berkeley agriculture researchers would be busy preparing for the summer research season.But this year, in a fenced-off...
Got Quakes on the Mind?
With a handful of very noticeable earthquakes jolting the East Bay, we're getting a lot of questions about quakes -- do small ones release strain? Or foretell the Big One?...
In the Key of Bee
Gordon Frankie has an obsession, and he hopes it's contagious: In gardens around the Bay Area, dozens of species of native bees, many nothing like the more familiar but nonnative...
Workhops at the Jepson Herbarium
Would you like to learn how to identify wildflowers or expand your botanical vocabulary? Or discuss the evolutionary history that produced the diversity of organisms living around us? You might...
