BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- You might not know it walking through the quiet pathways, but the UC Botanical Garden is currently in a race against time. And it's all because of newts. "We know they've ...

The home of beloved newts at the University of California's Botanical Garden in Berkeley is in jeopardy unless the garden's Japanese pool can be renovated this summer, officials at the garden said.

The UC Berkeley Botanical Garden began a “Save Our Newts” campaign to raise money to fix cracks in its Japanese garden pool so the pool does not collapse. The campaign aims to raise $150,000 to fix ...

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” ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - While some might say no newts is good newts, the folks at UC Berkeley's Botanical Garden disagree, even going so far as to declare a Newtapalooza at the garden in February. Visitors ...

On rainy winter nights in the Bay Area, California newts (Taricha torosa) begin their slow migration from hillsides and ...

At last - some signs of spring; flowers coming into bloom, an increase in bird song and perhaps a clump of frog spawn in the pond.