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Spring 2013

Features

  • Why Are These Climate Change Experts Worried About Their Kids’ Futures?
  • Confronting the Climate Gap: Communities of Color Are Feeling the Heat
  • On the Ground: CNR Research in Obesity
  • Q&A Visits Wine Country

News Briefs

  • Sex, Lies, and AIDS in Africa
  • Newfound Gene That Turns Carbs Into Fat Could Be Target for Future Drugs
  • New Wetland Design a Leap Forward in Cleansing Toxins From Salton Sea
  • VIDEO: Endowing Cells With a Magnetic Personality

Campus Briefs

  • Hawaii’s Bugs May Hold Key to Biodiversity
  • Go Bears ... Polar Bears, That Is
  • Yucatan Field Trip
  • Breakthroughs is your magazine. How are we doing? Take our readership survey now.

Departments

  • Letter from the Dean
  • NewsMakers
  • Why I Do Science: Joseph L. Napoli
  • Five Key Lessons from ER 273
  • The Big Picture

Profiles

  • David Brower, Next-Gen Environmentalist
  • Jennifer Harrower, The Alchemy of Art and Science

College Support

  • New Endowment Fund Boosts Sustainability

Video Highlight

Turning tobacco into fuel

Plant and microbial biology scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce bio-fuels.

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  • The Berkeley Fund for Natural Resources
  • Don Dahlsten Field Research and Outreach
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