Applications to the environmental leadership course will be accepted through January 25, 2019.
Rachel Morello-Frosch receives Chancellor's equity award
The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity recognizes faculty who advance inclusion and diversity through their research, teaching, and service.
Holiday Greetings from the College of Natural Resources
Watch a video holiday message to the CNR community.
Three in CNR recognized for advising excellence
Kay Burns, James Sallee, and Ricky Vides are among those honored by UC Berkeley’s Advising Council.
In Memoriam: Joanne Ikeda
The Cooperative Extension Specialist Emeritus was a nationally recognized expert on pediatric nutrition and obesity.
Gene Rochlin, who warned of overreliance on technology, dies at 80
Rochlin's work studied the societal implications of nuclear proliferation, nuclear waste disposal, military weapons systems and the increasingly computerized society of the 1990s.
Allen Goldstein elected AAAS fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the nation’s largest scientific organization.
Q&A: The UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity
Launched in 2017, the Institute seeks to advance the research, management, and protection of our treasured public parks and lands.
Profile: Dean David Ackerly
The College of Natural Resources has a new dean, plant ecologist and evolutionary biologist David Ackerly.
Fire and water: restoring natural fire regimes to California's mountains
Researchers from the College of Natural Resources and the College of Engineering are helping shape wildfire management strategies.
Van Jones delivers fall Albright Lecture
During his visit to Berkeley, the CNN political commentator and Dream Corps president discussed environmental justice and action.
Dean Ackerly on equity, inclusion, and diversity in CNR
The College of Natural Resources' dean shares a message with the CNR community.
Berkeley earns high U.S. News & World Report rankings
The most recent rankings from the U.S. News & World Report places UC Berkeley at and near the top in several fields, including environment/ecology, plant and animal science.
Lion conservation efforts severely underfunded, study shows
A recent study on lions and their habitats in Africa indicates that in order to save them, we need to invest resources in them now, before it is too late.
Smallest life forms have smallest working CRISPR system
Scientists find that certain microbes, which contain some of the smallest known life forms, also boast the smallest CRISPR system yet discovered.
To protect biodiversity, researchers say we need to bring the wild back into our farmlands
Researchers find that conservation and landscape management practices are key for retaining biodiversity, especially with the increasing threat of climate change.
Independent solar power could offer reliable electricity to sub-saharan Africa
The “cost of reliability” for decentralized power systems could be extremely low in the future.
Clean Water Act dramatically cut pollution in U.S. waterways
“Water pollution has declined dramatically, and the Clean Water Act contributed substantially to these declines,” said Joseph Shapiro, “So we were shocked to find that the measured benefit numbers were so low compared to the costs.”
Student Spotlight: Sophie Babka
Senior Sophie Babka tells us about her work at the California Environmental Protection Agency, how she is working to end food waste at ReGrained, and much more.
Rethinking resilience-based management before it’s too late
A new paper links two influential ideas in modern natural resource management: ecological resilience and novel ecosystems