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Countering a perception that establishing nature reserves in developing nations drives away local communities, a new UC Berkeley study finds that human settlements are actually drawn to protected areas in Africa and Latin America. Unfortunately, the researchers also found a link between high rates of human population growth and illegal harvesting of timber, bushmeat hunting and species extinction. More >
Four tree-sitters voluntarily came down from their perches alongside Memorial Stadium Tuesday night and Wednesday, while the judge hearing legal challenges to the planned construction of a student athlete training center on the site set July 17 for a hearing on the university's request to modify her injunction and let construction proceed.
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NASA's STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing UC Berkeley scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.
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Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple. This finding by UC Berkeley researchers provides hope that creating vaccines for parasitic diseases such as malaria may be more straightforward than initially thought.
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Clay Felker, an innovative editor known for his pathbreaking work in American magazines and the namesake of the Felker Magazine Center at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, died July 1 at the age of 82.
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The family relationships among the world's 9,600 bird species have been thrown into question by a genetic comparion of bird DNA. According to UC Berkeley ornithologist Rauri Bowie, the study sheds a whole new light on birds' long evolutionary road from the dinosaurs.
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The UC Botanical Garden is celebrating a noxious smell permeating its Tropical House, thanks to the blooming of Odora the Titan arum, also known not so fondly as the corpse flower.
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Everyone's talking about "going green," but in the building industry, the cost of investment has been difficult to justify — until now. Haas professor John Quigley has co-authored a study that found that investments in proven green building practices lead to sizable increases in a property's market value and effective rent.
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UC Berkeley has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, one of India's leading research institutions, in a collaboration focused on energy and health care. But what really sets the program apart is the way it was conceived: by the students in the program itself.
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