UC researchers are engineering the tobacco plant to produce biofuels
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
A Window Into the Pre-Vet Life
The website ValuePenguin launched its Future of Veterinary Care series with an interview with Amanda Wong, a junior in the Molecular Environmental Biology major.
"Perfect Storm" of Climate Change and Population Growth Brewing in African Sahel, Experts Warn
The African Sahel will descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate, coordinated steps are not taken to avert the perfect storm of climate change and the most rapidly growing population in the world, according to a report findings from the first international, multidisciplinary meeting on the region.
New AIDS research uses models to see through lies about sex, inform HIV policy
By Ann Brody Guy, College of Natural Resources
Partnership to Advance Cooperative Extension
ANR Vice-President Barbara Allen-Diaz has appointed a committee, Partnership to Advance Cooperative Extension (PACE), to discuss the diverse roles of members of the ANR network to increase relevance both internally and externally to UC.
Persistent methodological flaw undermines biodiversity conservation in tropical forests
What is the role of logging in tropical forests? How is biodiversity affected by this logging?
Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about the environment, study finds
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley Media Relations
New gene found that turns carbs into fat, could be target for future drugs
By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley Media Relations
Plants and soils could accelerate climate's warming, study warns
By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News
Scientists look to Hawaii's bugs for clues to origins of biodiversity
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations