Press Room

The Rausser College of Natural Resources includes UC Berkeley faculty, Cooperative Extension specialists, graduate students, and undergraduates working in a variety of research areas related to:

  • Agriculture and agricultural economics
  • Energy technologies and policy
  • Environmental and climate-change science, policy, and ecology
  • Fire science, safety, and policy
  • Food safety, food supply, food additives
  • Insects and wildlife biology
  • Natural Resources: science, ecology, and conservation of water, soil, and energy.
  • Obesity, childhood obesity, nutrition
  • Plant and microbial biology, genetically modified organisms
  • Sustainable energy, farming systems, natural resource management, etc.

Contact details

For help locating Rausser College faculty experts or for other press inquiries, contact:

Julie Gipple
Communications Director
julie_gipple@berkeley.edu

Mathew Burciaga
Communications Specialist
mburciaga@berkeley.edu
(510) 664-5122

News

August 31, 2026

Berkeley News
Examining plant biology from domestication to genetic engineering

In Modern Applications of Plant Biotechnology, a brand-new course offered at UC Berkeley this year, Plant & Microbial Biology Professors Becky Bart and Patrick Shih recount more than 10,000 years of plant biology.

Ag Information Network of the West
Be Aware of Plant and Stink Bugs in Treenuts

Features Kent Daane, professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 29, 2026

KQED
Newsom, Lawmakers Reach Last-Minute Deal on Wildfire Fallout | KQED

Features Meredith Fowlie, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

NPR
The bridges of Rwanda open up new worlds

Features Ted Miguel, a faculty affiliate in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics.

August 28, 2026

San Francisco Chronicle
Two California titans are in an epic clash over last-minute legislation — with impacts for every Californian

Features Meredith Fowlie, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

August 27, 2026

Plumas Sun
Herbicides pose dilemma for forest managers

Features Scott Stephens, professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 25, 2026

CalMatters
Trump cuts hit federal forests, and California is spending billions to fill the gap

Features John Battles, the Rudy Grah Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Chemical & Engineering News
Can an old molecule turn up the metabolic heat?

Features Anders Näär, professor in the Department of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition

August 24, 2026

The Associated Press
Newsom returns to a defining California fight: Who pays for wildfire damage?

Features Meredith Fowlie, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

CapRadio
Growing food and power on the same land: California researchers test agrivoltaics

Features Aaron Smith, the Gordon Rausser Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Haas Energy Institute
Who Should Pay for Utility-Ignited Wildfires?

Features Meredith Fowlie, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

UC San Diego
UC San Diego Study Finds Changes to California’s Landscapes May Influence Valley Fever Risk

Features John Taylor, professor of the graduate school in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

August 23, 2026

The New York Times
Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests

Features Johan Eckdahl, a postdoctoral researchers in the Energy & Resources Group

August 19, 2026

PERC
A Long Shadow

Features Arthur Middleton, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 17, 2026

High Country News
In a warming world, wildflowers offer a warning

Features John Harte, professor emerit in the Energy & Resources Group

August 14, 2026

Daily Californian
‘The future of AI’ is away from data centers, UC Berkeley researchers argue

Features Carl Boettiger, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 13, 2026

The Guardian
Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’

Features Trevor Keenan, the Sidney Chen and Sandra Lee Chen Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 10, 2026

Nature
Maladaptive trained immunity as a hematopoietic stem cell driver of inflammaging

Features Danica Chen, professor in the Department of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition

Los Altos Town Crier
Los Altos’ first fully affordable housing development takes aim at carbon emissions

Features Paul Mayencourt, assistant professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 7, 2026

Bloomberg.com
Americans Love Giant Trucks. But They’re Killing Us

Features Maximilian Auffhammer and Michael Anderson, professors in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics