Feature Stories
Berkeley researchers are working to safeguard the planet’s supply of cacao from disease.
Spring 2025
Nancy Peluso has spent her career analyzing entanglements between human and natural worlds.
Spring 2025
A collaborative network of scientists is measuring the breathing of the biosphere around the globe.
Spring 2025
Grown from the grassroots, the environmental justice movement has gone global—and Rausser College researchers are at the forefront.
Fall 2024
Meg Mills-Novoa’s research helps Nevada’s rural communities and Indigenous groups navigate a boom of renewable energy production.
Fall 2024
The Energy and Resources Group celebrates 50 years of working toward a sustainable environment and a just society
Fall 2024
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the College of Natural Resources, we highlight 50 fun facts and big impacts from our first five decades.
Spring 2024
Building on successes, grappling with inequities, and advancing a collective vision to protect nature for everyone.
Spring 2024
Rausser College faculty are shaping the next era of wildlife and conservation research.
Fall 2023
Undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities are collaborating with Rausser College scientists to prepare for graduate-level research.
Fall 2023
Rausser College researchers are advancing knowledge of California’s sensitive freshwater ecosystems.
Spring 2023
How climate change is altering water as an ecological system—a system that includes us.
Spring 2023
Can the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act ensure sufficient, safe, and equitable water for all Californians?
Spring 2023
Researchers are using synthetic biology and CRISPR methods to help plants fight pathogens, improve crop yields, and store more carbon.
Fall 2022
Rausser College faculty are helping scale markets for carbon capture, storage, and management.
Fall 2022
Cecilia Martinez-Gomez’s engineered bacteria recovers valuable elements from old smartphones, cleans up medical wastewater, and more.
Fall 2022
Can the bioeconomy bring renewable, carbon-negative products to a global scale?
Fall 2022
A new project visualizes how sea-level rise may threaten hazardous facilities and the surrounding vulnerable communities along California’s coastline.
Spring 2022
Rausser College students are helping reshape our understanding of the bacterial world.
Spring 2022
The California Heartbeat Initiative uses new technologies to track environmental change on a landscape scale.
Fall 2021