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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.

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Research

Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

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Research

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

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Law

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

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Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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

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

A helicopter drops a large amount of water onto a forest fire

UC Berkeley researchers simulate how wildfires spread through communities

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

A landscape with alternating grassy and forested patches.

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

Collage of three photos. Left: Paul Raftery; middle: Therese Peffer; right: Hui Zhang.

UC researchers awarded $8 million to advance commercial building decarbonization

Two individuals inspect a wooden structure in the middle of the weir.

Planning for climate resilience in California’s freshwater ecosystems

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Size of tropical glaciers at lowest point in at least 11,000 years

Llamas anaranjadas de un incendio forestal en California ardiendo por la noche en la distancia, con la silueta de una bomba de petróleo y gas en primer plano.

Según un nuevo estudio, los incendios forestales amenazan cada vez más los pozos petroleros, lo que empeora los riesgos potenciales para la salud

orange flames from a wildfire in California burning at night in the distance, with the silhouette of an oil and gas pumpjack in the foreground.

Wildfires increasingly threaten oil and gas drill sites, compounding potential health risks, study says

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Climate Break: Adapting coffee production for climate resilience

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