Researchers have documented how flamingos use their feet, heads and beaks to create a storm of swirling tornados, or vortices, in the water to efficiently concentrate and slurp up their prey.

Berkeley professors work to leverage technology to support biodiversity conservation and environmental stewardship.

The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology has one of the largest collections of eggs in North America, and it's vital to researchers worldwide.

Severely dry winter conditions has blocked some species of salmon and steelhead trout from accessing their breeding grounds, wiping out their populations.

Based on studies of leaping squirrels, UC Berkeley students design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch.

Researchers find that Fiji iguanas are most closely related to the North American desert iguana.

Berkeley researchers use liquid chromatography to analyze the blue lotus plant at a chemical level.

UC Berkeley students have photographed California’s most elusive mammal alive for the first time.

A new study led by UC Berkeley researchers finds that wealth, pollution and human population density are strong predictors of how coyotes move around the city.

Berkeley Stone Center researchers uncover new link between species diversity and resilience.

A new census tracts with higher concentrations of fine mineral dust had higher incidence rates of Valley fever.

A Berkeley professor and her colleagues tracked down a new species along that country's pacific coast, naming it in honor of an Afro-Colombian music style.

Berkeley researchers examined efforts to manage the European green crab, an invasive marine species that has spread to every continent except Antarctica.

A tiny, elusive mammal native to a small stretch of the Sierra Nevada has been photographed for the first time by a team led by UC Berkeley student researchers.

Berkeley biologists have shown that some fruit flies have stolen a successful defense from bacteria to survive predation by parasitic wasps.

Every year, the UC Berkeley-led SOD Blitz Project surveys thousands of California trees for signs of the fungus-like pathogen.

Seventeen new species of plant bugs have been identified on the islands of French Polynesia.

Partnership between researchers at Berkeley and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will advance the science and management of gray wolves in California.

The second year of life may be a critical time when children recognize and prefer people who have more resources, new UC Berkeley research shows.

A new perspective published this week calls on California leaders to do more to recover degraded freshwater ecosystems and protect the resilience, health, and viability of existing ecosystems.

The high Andes mountains host many glaciers. Study shows four of them have shrunk to a size not seen since the rise of human civilization.

New research suggests that competition over love and real estate drives two extreme behaviors in green-rumped parrotlets.

Berkeley researchers suggest saber-toothed cats held onto their baby teeth to stabilize their sabers.

Berkeley professor works to identify potential solutions that can eventually mitigate the effects of cumulative exposure to chemicals and psycho-social stressors.

Berkeley Professor sheds light on the historic red market trade of human skeletons from India and the ethics of using them for educational purposes.

Berkeley researcher points out that the way most government agencies calculate the heat index is inaccurate when dealing with the temperature and humidity extremes we're seeing today.

By the end of the century, drought may reshape California's mountain waterways and the ecosystems that depend on them.

A six-year project, called openVertebrate (oVert), offered researchers a glimpse of how the data might be used to ask new scientific questions and spur the development of innovative technology.

Seven engineers from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory helicoptered into the Farallon Islands on an eight-day mission to upgrade one of the lab’s most critical seismic stations.

Using a novel series of metrics, researchers found that these communities were exposed to about 1.7 times as much wildfire smoke as would be expected based on their statewide populations.

Precision-targeted gene editing on specific subsets of cells while still in the body is a step toward a delivery method that would eliminate the need to obliterate patients' bone marrow and immune system before giving them edited blood cells.

Genetic analysis of bone fragments from German archaeological site proves that modern humans reached northern Europe not long after they emerged from Africa.

New research published by a team at the UC Berkeley used machine learning to more accurately predict which waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act.

UC Berkeley researchers find that increased interbreeding due to loss of tidal marsh habitat caused saltwater-adapted Savannah sparrows to lose their genetic distinctiveness.

Aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, UC Berkeley researchers compared five methodologies for evaluating the emission reductions of cookstoves in developing countries.

UC Berkeley researchers discovers evidence for huge underwater eruption 500,000 years ago, part of a still-active volcanic arc in the Aegean.

A new UC Berkeley study shows that kelp flourished off the Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups of marine mammals, sea urchins, birds and bivalves that today call the forests home.

UC Berkeley comparative psychologist have found that great apes and chimpanzees can recognize groupmates they haven't seen in over two decades.

An experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.

Formaldehyde is used by the body to regulate epigenetic change, and it may suppress the body's attempts to prevent the expression or overexpression of certain genes.

Viruses of coral symbionts offers clues about deadly disease across coral reef communities.

New study analyzes the coexistence of humans and coyotes in San Francisco.

When it comes to the water side of 30x30, most programs focus primarily on conservation of oceans, but a new study by researchers argues that freshwater ecosystems must not be neglected.

Wildfires are an increasing threat to people's lives, property and livelihoods, especially in rural California communities. Cannabis, one of California's newer and more lucrative commercial crops, may be at a higher risk of loss from wildfire because it is mostly confined to being grown in rural areas, according to new research by scientists in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at UC Berkeley.

Researchers in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB) have uncovered the intricate molecular processes that precede reproduction in flowering plants. Published July 6 in Nature, the findings document a previously unknown molecular process that serves as a method of communication during fertilization. According to Professor Sheng Luan, chair of the PMB department and the paper’s senior author, the exact mechanism for signaling has previously eluded researchers.

At the University of California, Berkeley, a real and more down-to-earth mission to decode an unknown form of communication is underway. Linguist Gasper Begus and computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser are part of an international team of researchers attempting interspecies communication with sperm whales by deciphering their deafening, 200-plus decibel clicking sounds, or codas.

Human populations have waxed and waned over the millennia, with some cultures exploding and migrating to new areas or new continents, others dropping to such low numbers that their genetic diversity plummeted. In some small populations, inbreeding causes once rare genetic diseases to become common, despite their deleterious effects. A new analysis of more than 4,000 ancient and contemporary human genomes shows how common such “founder events” were in our history.

Salamanders that live their entire lives in the crowns of the world’s tallest trees, California’s coast redwoods, have evolved a behavior well-adapted to the dangers of falling from high places: the ability to parachute, glide and maneuver in mid-air.

Research conducted at UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory (CSSL) is providing a much-needed tool for state water managers that could help them prepare for potential flooding during rain-on-snow events in the Sierra Nevada.

Of the hundred or so known species of hyena — living and extinct — that stalked the earth, all have been meat eaters or omnivores except one, the aardwolf, which, mysteriously, eats termites. What happened in the history of fearsome hyenas that led one group to give up raw meat and turn to insects? Two fossil skulls of a 12- to 15-million-year-old hyena that once lived in the Gansu province of China may shed light on that mystery.