California

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Milestones

How the Terner Center for Housing Innovation shaped California’s decade of housing reform

Since 2015, research from the center at the College of Environmental Design has informed policy advances in California and beyond.

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Humanities

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.

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Politics & society

Possibility Lab, CalMatters launch policy-focused “Knowledge Hub”

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Campus news

California Policy Lab opens new Sacramento office

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California unionization rates steady despite nationwide decline, says new report

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Good news, bad news, in report on the state of California democracy

A person wearing black waders stands waist-deep in a creek, inspecting what appears to be a black pipe that spans the width of the creek.

Diversity in coho salmon could be key to species survival

Trump may be planning a sharp, extended conflict with California, experts say

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California Wolf Project will advance science and management of gray wolves

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Gaps in stream monitoring may hinder water management in California, study finds

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A Berkeley expert’s guide to California’s social housing proposals

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Rising groundwater threatens thousands of toxic sites in the Bay Area

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Rare beetle, rediscovered after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown

A photo shows an oil rig located in a neighborhood in Los Angeles. In the foreground is a sign for a city park.

Black, Latinx Californians face highest exposure to oil and gas wells

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Many California state workers struggle to make ends meet, new study finds

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Losing track of (geologic) time at the UC Museum of Paleontology