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

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

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.

Politico
California’s undergrounding conundrum

Featurs Meredith Fowlie, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

November 17, 2025

East Bay Times
Into the fog: Researching the California coastal staple

Features Todd Dawson, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

November 14, 2025

TIME
The Rise, Fall, and Potential Return of the Food Pyramid

Features Kevin Klatt, assistant research scientist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology.

Virginia Tech News
Study to examine if water filters can improve health for households in rural Appalachia

Features Isha Ray, Professor in The Energy and Resources Group.

November 12, 2025

FarmProgress
Pot farms put tribal cultural resources at risk

Features Jennifer Sowerwine, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

November 8, 2025

San Francisco Chronicle
These endangered predators have finally returned. Should California be killing them?

Features Arthur Middleton, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

November 1, 2025

Healdsberg Patch
CA Kills Wolfpack Living Off Livestock, Signaling Golden State Wildlife Dilemma

Features Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares, Professors in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Kaggie Orrick, director of California Wolf Project

October 30, 2025

New York Times
The Reality of Living With Wolves, Bears and Mountain Lions

Features Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares, Professors in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Kaggie Orrick, director of California Wolf Project