Agroecology professor Tim Bowles and colleagues are working to conduct a data-driven valuation of the risk mitigation of improved soil health.
Improving the modeling, measurement, and management of wildfire emissions
Forest science professor Scott Stephens discusses integrating Indigenous knowledge into California’s forest policy recommendations.
A rainy season wake-up call for bacteria
ESPM researchers Jill Banfield, Mary Firestone, and Ella Sieradzki detail new links between soil viruses and carbon emissions.
Revisiting Berkeley’s 1923 fire 100 years later
ESPM professor Scott Stephens spoke to Berkeleyside about the city’s continued fire risk in a series commemorating the centennial of its 1923 fire.
A mini-camp with major impact
California community college students were introduced to UC Berkeley’s forestry program through a condensed weeklong program held earlier this summer.
Student Spotlight: Areidy Beltran-Peña
The recent graduate and climate change scientist spoke to us about her time at UC Berkeley and her future as a Stanford University postdoc.
What can we do about deadly wildfires?
Lenya Quinn-Davidson, '04 CRS, Director of the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network, speaks on the causes and mitigation of megafires fueled by the climate crisis.
Whendee Silver to deliver 2023 Reeburgh Lecture at AGU Fall Meeting
The ESPM professor was chosen in recognition of her pioneering contributions to global biogeochemistry.
Addressing the health hazards of climate change
Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch is working to mitigate the effect of flood-related contamination on some of the state's most marginalized communities.
How wildfires have remade the Illilouette Creek Basin
A decades-long experiment in Yosemite involving wildfires is showing researchers what a healthy forest should look like.
Farms that create habitat are key to food security and biodiversity
A new paper co-authored by ESPM professor Alejandra Echeverri suggests that Costa Rica's diversified farms can help reverse declines in tropical biodiversity.
A green revolution In California’s ‘Carbon Valley’
Associate Professor Dara O'Rourke writes about Kern County's efforts to support carbon removal projects in an equitable and safe way.
Three ESPM faculty awarded California Climate Action Grants
Projects led by professors Ted Grantham, Miranda Redmond, and Peter Nelson have received Climate Action Matching Grants to advance research that builds climate resilience and equity in California.
Professors Adrienne Correa and Alejandra Echeverri join ESPM
Join us in welcoming Correa and Echeverri, and other new Rausser College faculty.
'It's OK to be different,' Lewis advises Black environmental scholars
Vernard Lewis, professor emeritus of cooperative extension, spoke to four students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities conducting summer research at UC Berkeley.
How the built environment affects biodiversity
In a new PBS documentary, ESPM professor Chris Schell spoke about how coyotes and other animals adapt to life in urban ecosystems.
Reflections on the weather mayhem of the summer of 2023
Professor Dennis Baldocchi offers personal insights into the unprecedented period of extreme weather that struck the northern hemisphere.
Berkeley Talks: Jessica Morse on how we can live with fire
Morse, who serves as California's Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildland Resilience, spoke about how the state is working to prevent catastrophic wildfires during last fall's S.J. Hall Lecture.
Racial gap in air quality may persist under Biden program, study finds
Omitting racial demographics from a new evaluative tool may hamper the Biden administration's efforts to address environmental inequalities.
Quantifying the strength of the land carbon sink
As climate change threatens land-based ecosystems, a new paper from ESPM researchers highlights the role they play in offsetting human carbon emissions.