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The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management is a multidisciplinary program that recognizes the urgency of the challenges facing our environment, and the enormous opportunities that may lead to transformative change.


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Watch: A sustainable construction material is reinvented at UC Berkeley's Wood Lab

A California timber mill will be the first in the country to manufacture this eco-friendly, engineered wood product.

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New digital tool shows where exactly California’s water goes

The COEQWAL project, led by ESPM Professor Ted Grantham, is helping communities explore how shifting the state’s water priorities could impact agriculture, cities and ecosystems.

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UC Berkeley scientists find a carbon cycle hiding in desert minerals

Desert soils run a hidden, non-biological carbon cycle, capturing carbon dioxide at night and releasing it by day.

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