Computational Biologist Steven Brenner will be part of an ambitious effort to assess whether large-scale gene sequencing aimed at detecting disorders and conditions can and should become a rou
What Can We Learn From the Rim Fire?
The Rim Fire raging near Yosemite National Park since August 17 has already destroyed nearly 200,000 acres and has become the 6th worst fire in California history.
The Libyan Spring's Environmentalists
By Ann Brody Guy, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources
What do you do if you have three academic degrees in forestry-related topics and your home country is a desert? Plant trees, of course.
CNR fire experts on KQED Forum
After two years of sparse rains, California fire officials say this year's wildfire season has started a month earlier than usual and that the fires are stronger.
Gilless Reappointed CNR Dean
J. Keith Gilless has been reappointed as the Dean of the College of Natural Resources, effective July 1, 2013, for a five-year period.
UC researchers are engineering the tobacco plant to produce biofuels
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
"Perfect Storm" of Climate Change and Population Growth Brewing in African Sahel, Experts Warn
The African Sahel will descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate, coordinated steps are not taken to avert the perfect storm of climate change and the most rapidly growing population in the world, according to a report findings from the first international, multidisciplinary meeting on the region.
New AIDS research uses models to see through lies about sex, inform HIV policy
By Ann Brody Guy, College of Natural Resources
Persistent methodological flaw undermines biodiversity conservation in tropical forests
What is the role of logging in tropical forests? How is biodiversity affected by this logging?
Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about the environment, study finds
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley Media Relations
New gene found that turns carbs into fat, could be target for future drugs
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations