Some of Berkeley’s tiniest and slimiest residents will once again find their winter homes to be safe and habitable thanks to a campaign by the campus Botanical Garden. The garden’s “Save the Newts” ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that’s helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

Holding a newt is one of the most sought-after wildlife encounters among the North Bay’s elementary school set. Each year, thousands of school kids eagerly await their field trip to one of our ...

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On a patch of postcard-perfect English countryside, John and Margie Histed's 300-year-old house was their dream home - until last summer's floods ruined almost everything. "It was distressing, but ...

LOS GATOS — More than 2,695 California newts have lost their lives this winter along a six-mile stretch of a rural road, their small colorful bodies flattened like discarded banana peels. Anne Parsons ...

WASHINGTON— In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to consider granting Endangered Species Act protections to the striped newt, ...

Newt so fast, Ed Sheeran: The singer’s plans to build a private, non-denominational chapel on his property in Suffolk, England must await the results of an ecological survey regarding the possible ...

Now that many of us are out and about once again — while social distancing, of course — we are in high spirits as we take in nature’s nuances along some of the county park’s trails. It’s fun to slake ...

Conservationists in Scotland are restoring ancient wetlands in a strategy to lure back some former residents, the BBC reported. The publication explained that the great crested newt is an amphibian ...