Research News

Berkeley energy and river experts argue that investing in renewable technologies could be safer and cheaper than building large dams.

Coopertive Extension Specialist Matteo Garbelotto is on a mission to enlist citizen scientists to stomp out sudden oak death in California.

An unexpected connection between insulin receptor and gene expression opens new doors.

A new study finds that in the Caribbean, independent island nations are less vulnerable to coral bleaching than island territories.

An ambitious new multicampus consortium  is seeking ways to capture billions of tons of carbon dioxide and bring net carbon emissions in California to zero by 2045. 

Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, concludes an analysis of four recent ocean-heating observations.

New research highlights for the first time the widespread and deadly threat of the soil- and waterborne pathogen Phytophthora restoration sites.

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. 

“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.”