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
ON LEAVE AS OF NOVEMBER 2025
julie_gipple@berkeley.edu

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

News

January 18, 2026

Wyoming PBS
Wyoming's Invisible Walls: Saving the Last Great American Migration

Featurs Kristin Barker, research director for the Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab, in the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship.

January 9, 2026

Mongabay
AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them

Features McKalee Steen, graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Magali de Bruyn, research software engineer in the Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment.

January 7, 2026

NPR
Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics

Features Neil Tsutsui, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 24, 2025

The Washington Post
How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science

Features Patrick Gonzalez (PhD '93 Energy and Resources), associate adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 20, 2025

The Los Angeles Times
Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog, and what might be in it

Features Dennis Baldocchi, a professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 17, 2025

The New York Times
California’s ‘Twilight Zone’ of Endless Fog Is Finally Clearing

Features Dennis Baldocchi, a professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 15, 2025

Contra Costa Youth Journalism
New study reveals the fatal impacts of climate change on East Bay trees

Features Matteo Garbelotto, a professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 1, 2025

Los Angeles Times
California utilities try AI to combat costly wildfire liabilities

Features Duncan Callaway, Professor in The Energy and Resources Group.

November 26, 2025

Newsweek
Map Shows US States Warned of Sea Level Rise in 2050, 2100

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group.

November 25, 2025

Cayman Compass
Uber has cut road deaths in US; could it do the same in Cayman?

Featurs Michael Anderson, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Bay Journal
Report: Climate change imperils toxic sites across Chesapeake Bay region

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group.

C&EN News
These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins

Features Jill Banfield, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

November 20, 2025

KQED
Hundreds of California and Bay Area Hazardous Sites Could Face Future Flooding

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group

University of Colorado, Boulder
A window underground: New sensors measure emissions from soil in real time

Features Whendee Silver, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

ABC News
Thousands of toxic sites in US at risk of flooding in coming decades due to sea level rise: Study

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group

Mother Jones
Thousands of Toxic US Sites at Risk of Future Flooding

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group.

Innovative Genomics Institute
Uncovering a New Genetic Code in Microbes Opens Doors for New Bioengineering Applications

Features Jill Banfield, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

The Guardian
Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group

Inside Climate News
As Seas Rise, So Do the Risks From Toxic Sites

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

November 18, 2025

Tucson Spotlight
MOCA exhibit spotlights south side's long fight for clean water

Features Sunaura Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.