Science & environment

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Politics & society

Can ecotourism help promote cultural diversity and biodiversity?

A new UC Berkeley-led study integrates biology, anthropology, music and geography to map the places in Colombia where biodiversity and cultural diversity overlap, highlighting areas with the greatest potential for sustainable ecotourism development.

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Research

Magnetic tornado is stirring up the haze at Jupiter’s poles

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Research

A clue to what lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune

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Research

A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

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

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

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

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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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