Science & environment

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a man in blue shirt with tousled hair stands in front of a whiteboard

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

October 9, 2024

A satellite view of a hurricane over the southern United States.

Study links hurricanes to higher death rates long after storms pass

October 9, 2024

An electric vehicle at a charging station.

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

October 7, 2024

Fish swim among seaweed and anemones

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

October 2, 2024

a silvery Earth in the foreground with a bright white ball in the distance

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

September 26, 2024

man seated in office wearing jacket and tie

Physicist Paul Richards, a pioneer in studies of the cosmic microwave background, dies at 90

September 25, 2024

UC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman looks into the camera with a still image of microscopic yeast cells behind him

How looking closely led this cell biologist to world-changing breakthroughs

September 18, 2024

Coches manejan a través de esmog en un autopista de California

California ha mejorado la calidad del aire, pero persisten las desigualdades raciales/étnicas

September 13, 2024

Cars drive through smoggy air on a California highway

California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist

September 11, 2024

Four researchers walk across a grassy plateau with a view of moutains in the background.

UC Berkeley launches new center focused on environmental stewardship

September 5, 2024

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

September 4, 2024

a bearded man wearing goggles adjust equipment inside a fume hood

New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics

August 29, 2024

an orange slice of bread and an orange liquid in a white bowl being topped with a drop of amber liquid from a pipette

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

August 29, 2024

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

August 22, 2024

a ball of blue blobs with hundreds of orange hairs sticking out

Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

August 22, 2024

A landscape with alternating grassy and forested patches.

Reforestation is more cost-effective than previously thought, study finds

August 15, 2024

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