MARIN COUNTY, Calif. - The rainy season brings life-giving water to California but often enacts a penalty in the form of floods, mudslides and falling trees. Now, a new danger has come to light from ...

Last spring, volunteers in Napa County sampled 43 bay laurel trees for the presence of Sudden Oak Death or SOD, the killer of millions of oaks and tanoaks. The good news is there were no positives for ...

Debbie Mendelson examines a bay laurel for possible symptoms of sudden oak death along Todo El Mundo in Woodside on Dec. 13, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. This November, researchers discovered an ...

The contents of a bin of flour should not move. Small black bugs should not gather at the bottom of a box of cereal. And though they are nearly identical to rice grains, small maggots may not take up ...