Energy, Climate & Environment News

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.

As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, researchers warn that ongoing economic fallout may fuel a new wave of land acquisitions across the globe. 

Climate change isn’t the only threat facing California’s birds. Urban sprawl and agricultural development are forcing many native species to adapt to new and unfamiliar habitats.

Biochemists led by Michael Marletta, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology, discovered that the fungus secretes an enzyme that punches holes in the tough outer layer of rice leaves

Researcher Isaac Lichter-Marck is the first to provide evidence to resolve a long-standing evolutionary debate: Did iconic desert plants adapt to arid conditions only after they invaded deserts? Or did they come preadapted to the stresses of desert living?

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have taken a big step toward making ammonia production more environmentally friendly.

A new study connecting extreme thunderstorms and tree deaths suggests the tropics will see more major blowdown events in a warming world.

The 1972 Clean Air Act has driven spectacular decreases in pollution from U.S. passenger vehicles but poses a challenge for pollution policy in poor communities, according to the first comprehensive study of air pollution exhaust standards.

Computer simulations show that a driver of annual weather cycles has gone unrecognized: the changing distance between Earth and the sun.

New research on the Cyprinodon diabolis documents the extreme effect that these harsh conditions have had on its genetic diversity.

Trees in the West provide ecosystem services for the Pacific fisher, whose population in the southern Sierra Nevada population is endangered.