Bhavna Shamasunder, PhD '11 Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, is a leading expert in environmental justice and on cumulative burden.
Advancing climate equity around the world
We highlight some of the nearly three dozen graduate students supported by the Katherine S. and James K. Lau Graduate Fellowship in Climate Equity.
Powering Health in Africa
UC Berkeley research is electrifying clinics and hospitals that provide reliable power, Wi-Fi, and water to surrounding communities.
Empowering success in Kenya
As the USA executive director of the Human Needs Project, Kristina Yarmolich BS ’21 Conservation and Resource Studies, develops partnerships and sustainable programs that provide Kenyans with essential infrastructure.
Renewable Repercussions
Meg Mills-Novoa’s research helps Nevada’s rural communities and Indigenous groups navigate a boom of renewable energy production.
Championing Equity
Grown from the grassroots, the environmental justice movement has gone global—and Rausser College researchers are at the forefront.
Pathways to Equity
Our fall issue of Breakthroughs highlights environmental justice researchers who are tackling the mounting inequities that are created or compounded by climate change, economic injustice, and the enduring legacies of racism.
Africa’s path to green growth
New analysis by ERG researchers explores whether Africa’s economic growth could impact efforts to reduce global warming.
HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars visit KARE
Students in the HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars for Change Program got a taste of California agriculture during a recent visit to the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, California.
ESPM’s Damian Elias receives UC Berkeley’s top Equity award
The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity recognizes UC Berkeley faculty who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to advancing DEIBJ efforts.
Vernard Lewis’ message for the future
The professor emeritus of Cooperative Extension spoke to KTVU about his career and longtime efforts to inspire youth to pursue a science education.
Justice-Centered Conservation in Cities
A new book edited by Rausser College researchers centers equity and justice while delving into the complex elements that support or constrain biodiversity in cities.
How urban inequalities affect biodiversity
ESPM professor Christopher Schell spoke to the New York Times about the patterns of bigotry and inequality that affect how birds and other species experience life in cities
The quest for environmental and climate justice with Dr. Robert Bullard
Bullard spoke about dismantling systemic racism and policies and practices that create, exacerbate, and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability during the Fall 2023 Albright Lecture.
Building Bridges
A program led by professor Timothy Bowles and graduate student Rosalie Fanshel is making connections between undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and researchers at Rausser College.
Towards a New Lagacy
ESPM's Berkeley Wildlife faculty are incorporating new and diverse voices, grounding their research in real-world policy discussions, and to reimagining what wildlife means in an increasingly urban and digitized world.
Rausser College welcomes Fall 2023 incoming faculty
Rausser College of Natural Resources welcomes six new professors this fall.
'It's OK to be different,' Lewis advises Black environmental scholars
Vernard Lewis, professor emeritus of cooperative extension, spoke to four students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities conducting summer research at UC Berkeley.
Addressing energy access in informal settlements
Researchers in the Energy & Resources Group convened a conference for the Spotlight Kampala Collaboration to advance energy access in Uganda.
Parks Stewardship Forum's spring issue focuses on LGBTQIA+ community and conservation
A joint publication by the Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity and the George Wright Society, Parks Stewardship Forum focuses it's latest publication on recognition of the LGBTQIA+ community’s role in parks and protected areas.