| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/mountain-lion-with-cubs-sighted-along-... |
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Jul 25 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| UC Berkeley police issued a campus alert today (Tuesday, July 24, 2012) that a mountain lion has been sighted near Gayley Road on the eastern edge of the campus, most recently at around 2:30 a.m. last Thursday, July 19. This was the third sighting since June. Each time, the lion appeared to be trailing a deer, and once was seen with two cubs. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/12/hindcasting-helps-scientists-improve-f... |
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Jun 13 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| Earth’s changing environment and rapidly growing population are pushing plants and animals out of their native habitats, but current models that predict how this will affect the ecosystem have been inaccurate. A group of UC Berkeley scientists has launched the Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB) to improve the reliability and accuracy of these models by employing hindcasting – that is, “predicting” what happened during past episodes of climate change – to help them develop and test new models that will improve forecasting. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/11/fire-fuel-reduction-treatments/ |
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Jun 11 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new UC Berkeley study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, Berkeley researchers say controlled burns and other treatments to manage this risk should be stepped up. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/06/scientists-uncover-evidence-of-impendi... |
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Jun 6 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/07/trout-threatened-when-water-is-low-in-... |
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May 7 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, suggests a new study led by recent ESPM Ph.D. graduate, Theodore Grantham. The researchers found that juvenile steelhead trout are particularly at risk during the dry summer season typical of California’s Mediterranean climate. |
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May 1 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| The fungal infection that has killed a record number of amphibians worldwide leads to deadly dehydration in frogs in the wild, according to a new study by UC Berkeley ESPM post-doctoral researcher Jamie Voyles and research partners from San Francisco State University. |
| There's a WHAT on the lawn? |
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Apr 11 2012 | UC Berkeley Graduate Division |
| While turkeys occasionally venture down from the oak and chaparral of Strawberry Canyon, pelicans generally stay quite close to the Bay. Last week, however, a sizable pelican, likely in distress, made a rare visit to the UC Berkeley campus, choosing a spot on the grass in front of Sproul Hall. Local members of International Bird Rescue, trained in responding to these kinds of events, provided support in helping this visitor find its way. |
| Third time not the charm for Columbia River salmon BiOp |
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Aug 3 2011 | The Legal Planet |
| U.S. District Judge James Redden has once again found the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Biological Opinion for operations of the Columbia River hydropower system inadequate to satisfy the Endangered Species Act. This is the third time in a decade that Judge Redden has been asked to review a Columbia River BiOp, the third presidential administration to try its hand at a BiOp for the system, and the third time Judge Redden has found NMFS’s efforts insufficient. |
| Ecosystems take hard hit from loss of top predators |
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Jul 14 2011 | UC Berkeley News Center |
| A paper published in the July 15 issue of the journal Science by an international team of 24 researchers, including Justin Brashares, UC Berkeley associate professor in ESPM and Mary Power, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology, reviewing the impact of the loss of large predators and herbivores high in the food chain confirms that their decline has had cascading effects in marine, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems throughout the world. |
| Court upholds polar bear “threatened” status |
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Jul 1 2011 | The Legal Planet |
| The first big opinion in the polar bear listing case is out. Score two for the Fish and Wildlife Service: the agency’s decision to list the bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act prevailed against challenges from the Center for Biological Diversity on one side and the state of Alaska and hunting groups on the other. |
| Uncovering the Mechanistic Basis for Soil-Microbial-Community Response to Altered Precipitation Patterns |
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Jul 1 2011 | Earth Sciences Division |
| A significant proportion of the turnover rate of terrestrial carbon pools may be determined by the structure of the microbial communities responsible for catalyzing numerous different reactions. Not all carbon is alike, and microbial species within an ecosystem play fundamental and complementary roles in this cycle by harboring the genetic capability to breakdown different kinds of carbon, including recalcitrant compounds. Any loss of microbial biodiversity, brought about through anthropogenic perturbation, can thus have a large effect on the efficiency of this cycle. |
| UC Berkeley achieves sustainable seafood certification |
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Jun 20 2011 | UC Berkeley News |
| Five years after becoming the first university dining program in the country to achieve organic certification, Cal Dining at the University of California, Berkeley, has achieved another first. It is the first public university in the nation to be awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for its commitment to seafood sustainability, the MSC announced today. |
| Wired Californian forests to guide response to climate |
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Jun 9 2011 | New Scientist |
| The data gathered here at the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Mendocino county, California, should help the US's most populous state adapt to a warming world in which water becomes increasingly scarce, limiting its use by farmers, urban centres and natural habitats. It will also help to refine climate models, which don't adequately address the interplay between the water in trees, soil and bedrock. |
| Can social networking save the world’s amphibians? |
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May 25 2011 | UC Berkeley News Center |
| Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist with a camera can help scientists survey and hopefully save the world’s amphibians thanks to a new social networking site that links “citizen scientists” with researchers tracking the decline of amphibians around the globe. |
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