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 10, 2026

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

August 5, 2026

climatecentral.org
Warming U.S. Cities Face Higher Cooling Demand and Energy Bills | Climate Central

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

August 4, 2026

Inside Climate News
Climate-Fueled Fires Put America’s Natural and Cultural Sites At Risk

Features Patrick Gonzalez, associate adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

August 2, 2026

Hindustan Times
Climate change increasing risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, reveals study

Features Tamma Carleton, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

July 31, 2026

Smithsonian Magazine
Yellowstone Is Among the World’s Best Places to See Wild Wolves. Here’s the Story of the Animal Called Both ‘Public Enemy’ and Cultural Icon

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

July 25, 2026

Growing Produce
Who Holds the Pricing Power for the Vegetable Market?

Features David Zilberman, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

July 23, 2026

Capital Press
Farm groups fret increase in California's H-2A minimum wage

Features Alexandra Hill, assistant professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

July 21, 2026

New Phytologist
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Features Berkeley alum Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, who completed her PhD (2006) in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

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 13, 2026

Berkeley News
25 UC Berkeley breakthroughs to commemorate America's 250th birthday

Features Berkeley alums Stephen T. Mather (1887) and Horace M. Albright (1912), who served as the first and second directors of the National Park Service and helped lay the foundation for the agency's future.

July 9, 2026

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.

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

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