Governor Brown has reappointed J. Keith Gilless, dean of the College of Natural Resources and professor of forest economics, as chair of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Understanding Evolutionary Genetics
Rachel Brem (Plant & Microbial Biology) and her colleagues are researching new aspects of evolutionary genetics by focusing on distantly related species of single-celled yeast, the same organism used to make beer, wine, and bread.
Isha Ray on Gender Equality at TedXBerkeley
Associate Professor Isha Ray's recent TedxBerkeley talk focused on how access to toilets can have profound implications for achieving gender equality worldwide.
Professor O'Rourke to lead Amazon in Sustainability Science
Dara O'Rourke, a leading expert on global supply chains, will lead Amazon's new Sustainability Science team as senior principal scientist. Amazon has never published a sustainability report, but expects its sustainability operation to grow significantly this year.
California's Delta: On the Front Lines of the State's Water Issues
Few natural resources are as impressive, or as imperiled, as California's water. CNR professors and students are analyzing the problems and beginning the search for solutions.
Where Science Meets Activism
Breakthroughs magazine feature: The Center for Effective Global Action inspires on-the-ground interventions to change the lives of millions.
Growth Rings on Rocks Give Up North American Climate Secrets
Scientists have found a new way to tease out signals about Earth’s climatic past from soil deposits on gravel and pebbles, adding an unprecedented level of detail to the existing paleoclimate record and revealing a time in North America’s past when summers were wetter than normal.
Fighting Fire with Fire Benefits Forests, Watersheds
Tucked behind Half Dome, Mount Starr King and other natural walls of granite rock, the Illilouette Creek Basin in Yosemite National Park serves as one of just three areas in California where wildfires have been left to burn, for the most part, for decades.
New research in rural China may help improve drinking water quality and reduce air pollution
Alasdair Cohen’s collaboration with the China CDC allowed him to conduct the first known research study on household water treatments in China.
Ten-year Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project finds consensus on managing CA forests
ESPM scientists and their collaborators on the SNAMP project say there is a great need for forest restoration and fire hazard reduction treatments in Sierra Nevada forests.
Three new AAAS Fellows from UC Berkeley
Three UC Berkeley faculty members are among 347 new fellows named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today. Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers in recognition of their achievements in advancing science or its applications.
The Secret Life of a Raindrop
Explore the Earth’s “critical zone” – where rock meets life. And discover how top climate researchers are exploring the secrets within a raindrop in order to better understand how the availability of water resources changes as a result of human activities.
Mushroom Discovery on Campus
Two researchers who recently named the first new species of mushroom from the UC Berkeley campus in more than 30 years are emphasizing the need for continued green and open space on campus, as well as a full-fledged catalog of all North American mushroom species.
Fungal Spore Regenerates Forests
Berkeley to Lead $12.3M Study of Crop Drought Tolerance
UC Berkeley is leading a $12.3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to examine the role of epigenetics in allowing plants to survive in drought conditions, an increasing concern for agriculture as the effects of climate change are felt in California and globally.
Berkeley Ranked Top Environment/Ecology University by U.S. News
In U.S. News & World Report‘s “Best Global Universities Rankings,” published this week, UC Berkeley tops the list in Environment/Ecology.
To the Rescue: Berkeley Names Faculty Climate Action Champion
Whendee Silver might not think of herself as an action hero, but the professor of environmental science, policy and management today was named UC Berkeley’s first Faculty Climate Action Champion.
How to beat the climate crisis? Start with carrots
To speed up progress in tackling climate change, policymakers need to build political support by investing in clean-energy industries rather than first penalizing polluters, according to a new policy paper by UC Berkeley researchers.
Millet Project shows grain isn’t just for the birds
Amrita Hazra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, is on a mission — to introduce people to the benefits of eating millet, which primarily is used in the United States in bird feed.
Free Trade for Green Trade
In the run-up to the Paris talks at the end of the year, governments are preparing their strategies to negotiate national emissions reduction targets. But elsewhere, a different battle is unfolding as firms and governments compete to try to capture the benefits of the rise of the new green economy.