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

July 16, 2026

Forbes
How Kristy Drutman Is Helping Climate Professionals Find Career Opportunity

Features Kristy Drutman, BS '17 Society and Environment.

July 14, 2026

UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Flipping the script: A Q&A with Jason Spingarn-Koff about his new film “The Coral Rescuers” and what it’s like to get back into the director’s chair

Features Adrienne Correa, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

July 9, 2026

Los Angeles Times
'I'd rather my house burn down than get cancer': Two California communities fight to save their forests

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

The Conversation
A big El Niño is likely. Australia needs to get ready now for drought, fire and the unknown

Features Assistant Professor Lucas Vargas Zeppetello and PhD student Em Murdock of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

July 7, 2026

ethos
Demi Moore’s Soil Documentary Has a Carbon Problem

Features Ronald Amundson, the Betty and Isaac Barshad Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

July 6, 2026

Haas Energy Institute
Are Wind Turbines Making People Sick?

Features Maximilian Auffhammer, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Haas School of Business
How MBA/MCS students are merging business and climate

Features Varun Rajaram and Emily Kargl, students in the joint Master of Climate Solutions and Master of Business Administration program offered by Rausser College of Natural Resources and the Haas School of Business.

July 3, 2026

Inside Climate News
California’s First Carbon Capture Project Is Up and Running. Environmentalists Are Still Trying To Stop It.

Features Daniel Sanchez, associate professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

July 2, 2026

National Geographic Society
How Kaggie Orrick maps the complex relationship between wolves and people

Features Kaggie Orrick, lead researcher for the California Wolf Project

MIT Technology Review
Why California’s carbon manure math doesn’t add up

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

July 1, 2026

Jackson Hole News and Guide
In dueling papers, scientific barbs, researchers' fight over Yellowstone wolves, aspens soldiers on

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

June 30, 2026

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars visit Kearney REC

Features postdoctoral researcher Rosalie Fanshel, Associate Professor Timothy Bowles, and participants in the HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars for Change Program in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

June 29, 2026

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Bettiga, leading light in viticulture, retires after 41 years as UC Cooperative Extension advisor

Features Larry Bettiga, BS '78 Agricultural Pest Management, a Viticulture Farm Advisor with the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

June 25, 2026

Florida Trib
Toxic Tides: Rising seas increase risk of contaminants in Jacksonville’s waterfront communities

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

June 24, 2026

Trellis
Community opposition to data centers grows, crossing political divides

Features Dara O'Rourke, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

June 22, 2026

University of California
How UC research is helping the Golden State take charge of its climate future

Features Miranda Redmond, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

ABC 7 News
UC Berkeley lab turns wildfire salvage into mass timber for sustainable construction
Features Paul Mayencourt, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, and Daniel Sanchez, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension, and their work at the Wood Products Lab.

June 19, 2026

San Francisco Chronicle
A cheaper gas blend is legal in California. Here’s why you still can’t buy it

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

June 11, 2026

Cal Alumni Association
The Long Education Of Travel

Features Vincent Resh, professor emerit in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

June 10, 2026

Quanta Magazine
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

Features Patrick Shih, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology