Berkeleyside’s wildfire guide: Everything you need to know to prepare for and survive wildfires
Preparation advice, evacuation guidance and answers to your questions about air quality, power outages and defending your property.
After a wet winter, Bay Area goats have a lot on their plates
Thousands of goats who help reduce wildfire risk in Berkeley, Oakland and beyond are having to chew through thicker vegetation this spring.
Squished newts are drowning at bottom of leaky UC Botanical Garden pond
The garden is trying to raise $150,000 to seal the 80-year-old pond’s cracks, which the newts are getting stuck in, plug sinkholes and resurface the basin.
Photos: Little falcons Zephyr, Rosa and Luna learn to fly
The raptors hatched in early April in a nest box at the top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile.
Watch the UC Berkeley peregrine falcon hatchlings live
Annie. Lou. Their three hungry hatchlings. Stay tuned to all the action atop the UC Berkeley Campanile via the Cal webcam.