Feature Stories | Breakthroughs

Continuing the Mission of Cooperative Extension

Jennifer Sowerwine works to restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations.

Spring 2018

From Genes to Global Solutions

CNR faculty lead wide-ranging research initiatives at the Innovative Genomics Institute.

Spring 2018

Across a Century of Change, the Gift of a Baseline

Retracing the steps of pioneering naturalist Joseph Grinnell to document how California’s creatures have responded to an evolving environment.

Spring 2018

Architects of Metabolism

Andreas Stahl's campus collaborations in fighting obesity with fat.

Fall 2017

International Adventures in Clean Energy

Professor Daniel Kammen combines science with environmental policy in the quest for sustainable power.

Fall 2017

A playful image of researchers studying photosynthesis on a leaf

Seeing the Light

A Berkeley-Illinois collaboration experiments with photosynthesis to increase crop yield.

Spring 2017

Elk migrating in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Conflict and Coexistence

CNR ecologists use modern tools and old-fashioned relationship-building for research in spaces shared by humans and wildlife.

Spring 2017

Scaling the Heights of Data Science

rOpenSci moves mountains of data to transform environmental research.

Fall 2016

Measuring and Modeling

Two Berkeley projects assess the present and predict the future of Earth's ecosystem.

Fall 2016

Edward Miguel and Temina Madon helped cofound CEGA in 2007. PHOTO: Jim Block

Where Science Meets Activism

The Center for Effective Global Action inspires on-the-ground interventions to change the lives of millions.

Winter 2016

California's Delta: On the Front Lines of the State's Water Issues

The Delta Independent Science Board is analyzing some of the most controversial issues.

Winter 2016

E.O. Wilson on Saving Half the Earth

Breakthroughs interviews the renowned biologist about his bold vision to rescue the planet’s biodiversity.

Spring 2015

Rebooting California's Parks

Parks Forward launches the future of the state's finest natural resource.

Spring 2015

A dunlin flock in rice fields near Colusa, California. PHOTO: Drew Kelly, courtesy of TNC

Pop-Up Wetlands: A Success Story

The Nature Conservancy hatches a novel partnership between farmers and conservationists.

Fall 2014

Digitizing Ecological History

The Holos ecoinformatics engine is streamlining access to more than a century of field data.

Fall 2014

Pumping sulfate particles into the stratosphere could mimic the effects of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption, when sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere helped lower average global temperatures by preventing sunlight from reaching the ground. PHOTO: Getty Image

Can Extreme Science Fix the Planet?

Technology, risk, ethics, and policy collide in geoengineering.

Fall 2014

A study investigates the promise and peril of newborn genomic sequencing

Bringing Up Baby

The promise and peril of newborn genome sequencing.

Fall 2014

The Alameda County Community Food Bank was an early adopter in formalizing their nutrition policies. Allison Pratt and Jenny Lowe manage nutrition policy. PHOTO: Molly Oleson

Banking On Nutrition

The emergency food system's path to more healthful food has been studied, guided, and documented by the Atkins Center for Weight and Health.

Spring 2014

Taming Sierra Flames

A UC team tamps down fire danger and finds common ground.

Spring 2014

The New Naturalists

UC's California Naturalist Program is integrating citizen science into conservation

Fall 2013

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