One of the few mammals unique to California is also one of the most threatened by climate change. The alpine chipmunk only lives in California, and its habitat is shrinking. The alpine chipmunk, found ...

Berkeley -- Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the ...

Backpacking scientists from UC Berkeley have gathered compelling evidence that the warming High Sierra climate is pushing still another animal species to seek cooler habitats amid the higher regions ...

But that’s not the end of Grinnell’s legacy. Delving into the deep Museum of Vertebrate Zoology archives, the Berkeley team sampled skin from the actual alpine chipmunks Grinnell trapped in Yosemite ...

UC Berkeley researchers recently released a study chronicling the striking decline in the genetic diversity of alpine chipmunks, with all indicators suggesting that the decline is a consequence of ...

Jim Patton, a retired University of California at Berkeley professor of zoology, hikes in 10,000-foot-high terrain near Upper Young Lake in Yosemite National Park as he explores ways climate change ...