Energy, Climate & Environment News

An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by a Berkeley professor has recorded the first evidence that the adoption of electric vehicles is measurably lowering the area's carbon emissions.

Research sheds light on the dynamics between renewable energy infrastructure and local property values, providing valuable insights for sustainable and community-friendly energy development.

UC Berkeley chemists have come up with a simple and green way to convert methane and ethane into economically valuable liquids such as methanol and ethanol.

New book by UC Berkeley evolutionary biologist Noah Whiteman explores the delicious toxins all around us.

Researchers provide seemingly incontrovertible proof that humans were already living in North America during the height of the last Ice Age.

Penny Wieser, a 2022 Rose Hills Innovator, is developing a new approach to study the magma stored deep beneath a volcano.

The awards will advance research on mitigating wildfire risk, ensuring the equitable distribution of water and improving K-12 climate justice education.

Researchers launch major study using big data to pinpoint fungal disease emergence and how a changing climate will affect their spread.

A new project funded by a UC Natural Reserve System Climate Award aims to make biodiversity monitoring more efficient.

The Othering & Belonging Institute hosts panel to mark release of their research brief, “Climate Refugees: Facts and Findings, and Strategies for 'Loss and Damage'".

Partially due due to the administration’s decision not to include racial demographics in a new tool that will be used to evaluate proposed regulations or policies.

New study shows that deforestation, land-use changes, and climate-induced stresses have continually reduced the land sink’s capacity to assimilate carbon.

A new report finds that rising groundwater levels in the San Francisco Bay Area could impact more than 5,200 state- and federally-managed contaminated sites at risk.

The risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state’s most marginalized communities.

Researchers from the UC Berkeley have proposed a scalable solution that uses simple, inexpensive technologies to remove carbon from our atmosphere and safely store it for thousands of years.

The new species was found on Brown's Colusa County ranch and will be named Bembidion brownorum.