As part of today's White House Water Summit, more than 150 institutions have announced their efforts to enhance the sustainability of water in the United States. Commitments by two groups with ties to the Energy & Resources Group are included.
How bacteria get their magnetic compass
Many bacteria build miniature magnets and use them to navigate their environment, and PMB professor Arash Komeili has found a neat trick they use to do it.
CNR students take top prizes in grad video contest
Videos created by graduate students Rebecca Brunner (ESPM) and Benjamin Krause (ARE) were chosen as winners in the Berkeley Graduate Division's 2016 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest.
Cataloging California’s Diverse Ecosystems
Thirteen Berkeley researchers contributed to Ecosystems of California, a comprehensive sourcebook on California’s ecological abundance.
How fire diversity promotes biodiversity
A team of CNR researchers has found that a diversity of fires can promote the existence of more varied flowering plants and pollinators in an ecosystem, while also buffering against the negative effects of drought.
CNR Dean will continue to chair California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection
Governor Brown has reappointed J. Keith Gilless, dean of the College of Natural Resources and professor of forest economics, as chair of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Understanding Evolutionary Genetics
Rachel Brem (Plant & Microbial Biology) and her colleagues are researching new aspects of evolutionary genetics by focusing on distantly related species of single-celled yeast, the same organism used to make beer, wine, and bread.
Isha Ray on Gender Equality at TedXBerkeley
Associate Professor Isha Ray's recent TedxBerkeley talk focused on how access to toilets can have profound implications for achieving gender equality worldwide.
Professor O'Rourke to lead Amazon in Sustainability Science
Dara O'Rourke, a leading expert on global supply chains, will lead Amazon's new Sustainability Science team as senior principal scientist. Amazon has never published a sustainability report, but expects its sustainability operation to grow significantly this year.
California's Delta: On the Front Lines of the State's Water Issues
Few natural resources are as impressive, or as imperiled, as California's water. CNR professors and students are analyzing the problems and beginning the search for solutions.
Where Science Meets Activism
Breakthroughs magazine feature: The Center for Effective Global Action inspires on-the-ground interventions to change the lives of millions.
Growth Rings on Rocks Give Up North American Climate Secrets
Scientists have found a new way to tease out signals about Earth’s climatic past from soil deposits on gravel and pebbles, adding an unprecedented level of detail to the existing paleoclimate record and revealing a time in North America’s past when summers were wetter than normal.
Fighting Fire with Fire Benefits Forests, Watersheds
Tucked behind Half Dome, Mount Starr King and other natural walls of granite rock, the Illilouette Creek Basin in Yosemite National Park serves as one of just three areas in California where wildfires have been left to burn, for the most part, for decades.
New research in rural China may help improve drinking water quality and reduce air pollution
Alasdair Cohen’s collaboration with the China CDC allowed him to conduct the first known research study on household water treatments in China.
Ten-year Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project finds consensus on managing CA forests
ESPM scientists and their collaborators on the SNAMP project say there is a great need for forest restoration and fire hazard reduction treatments in Sierra Nevada forests.
Three new AAAS Fellows from UC Berkeley
Three UC Berkeley faculty members are among 347 new fellows named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today. Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers in recognition of their achievements in advancing science or its applications.
The Secret Life of a Raindrop
Explore the Earth’s “critical zone” – where rock meets life. And discover how top climate researchers are exploring the secrets within a raindrop in order to better understand how the availability of water resources changes as a result of human activities.
Mushroom Discovery on Campus
Two researchers who recently named the first new species of mushroom from the UC Berkeley campus in more than 30 years are emphasizing the need for continued green and open space on campus, as well as a full-fledged catalog of all North American mushroom species.
Fungal Spore Regenerates Forests
Berkeley to Lead $12.3M Study of Crop Drought Tolerance
UC Berkeley is leading a $12.3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to examine the role of epigenetics in allowing plants to survive in drought conditions, an increasing concern for agriculture as the effects of climate change are felt in California and globally.