Return Of The Blob! Big Purple Sea Slugs Wash Ashore In East Bay
Big purple sea slugs are washing up on East Bay beaches this summer to the wonder and curiosity of beach combers and naturalists.
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Big purple sea slugs are washing up on East Bay beaches this summer to the wonder and curiosity of beach combers and naturalists.
Berkeley Lab's annual goat herding through the hills above Centennial Drive delayed traffic briefly Friday afternoon, but drivers were treated to an impressive show as hundreds of goats raced across traffic lanes to continue chomping their way through the tinder-dry Berkeley Hills.
Call it the most literal "beach bum" study ever. Occasionally in science, the topic of your research and the perfect subjects in which to study it correlate in unique ways, case in point -- surfers and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. More specifically, surfer's colons.
In a dramatic move by the White House, offshore oil drilling is being permanently banned along a new stretch of the Northern California coast.
Authorities are checking whether a lightning strike sparked a grass fire in Moraga Wednesday morning.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the company expects to start deliveries of its new SUV, the Model X, in three or four months.
In the middle of a fourth year of drought in California, construction is underway for a massive, $36 million water park in the East Bay of San Francisco.
Cleanup teams have determined that 44 percent of 96.5 miles of California coastline is clear of oil from the Refugio Oil Spill, a state official said Sunday.
The preliminary findings released by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration point to a possible cause of the May 19 spill that blackened popular beaches with crude oil and created a 9-mile slick in the Pacific Ocean.
A rare California condor is recovering nicely at the Oakland zoo after being brought in with alarmingly high levels of lead.
City officials accepted a $4 million federal grant to chop down trees in the ritzy Oakland hills, a decision that ignited debate over how best to prevent deadly wildfires in the affluent Northern California region.
An analysis has found that the tallest redwood tree in Muir Woods is 777 years old -- and not the much older 1,500 years once assumed.
In May, rainstorms and runoff from a skimpy Sierra Nevada snowpack pushed the lake up to the rim. The bulk of precipitation fell from May 14 to May 25.
A 7-mile stretch of Southern California coastline that was closed to swimmers and surfers after globs of oily goo washed ashore could reopen Friday after a two-day cleanup effort.
Entry for children under 16 years of age will continue to be free, said the National Park Service, which announced the price increase on Thursday.
