Science & environment

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Politics & society

Helping Nevada’s rural and Indigenous communities navigate the renewable energy boom

UC Berkeley professor Meg Mills-Novoa is studying the impacts of lithium, solar and geothermal projects on the Great Basin’s water resources — and the equity implications for the people who live there.

Research

Talk Policy to Me: There’s something in the water

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Research

A world without plastic pollution? A new study shows it’s possible

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Research

Watch an environmental health professor explain wastewater woes

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Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

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Citizen scientists discover new, more virulent form of sudden oak death in Bay Area

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New plant bug species named after scientists, actors — and Vice President Kamala Harris

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Project 2025 could be disastrous for the climate. Legal scholars are preparing to fight back.

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California Wolf Project will advance science and management of gray wolves

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Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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Using AI and iNaturalist, scientists build one of the highest resolution maps yet of California plants

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Study links hurricanes to higher death rates long after storms pass

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Electric vehicle tax credits cut pollution but may not be cost-effective, study finds

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

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This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

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