The Rim Fire raging near Yosemite National Park since August 17 has already destroyed nearly 200,000 acres and has become the 6th worst fire in California history.
The Libyan Spring's Environmentalists
By Ann Brody Guy, UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources
What do you do if you have three academic degrees in forestry-related topics and your home country is a desert? Plant trees, of course.
Berkeley front and center in "alternative" food prize nominations
In a opinion piece responding to the World Food Prize being awarded to a Monsanto executive, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman served up several alternative nominations from prominent voices, most of whom have UC Berkeley and CNR co
CNR fire experts on KQED Forum
After two years of sparse rains, California fire officials say this year's wildfire season has started a month earlier than usual and that the fires are stronger.
Gilless Reappointed CNR Dean
J. Keith Gilless has been reappointed as the Dean of the College of Natural Resources, effective July 1, 2013, for a five-year period.
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.