Climate Change

An aerial view of golden yellow wheat fields

Research

Climate change cuts global crop yields, even when farmers adapt

A new study estimates that for every additional degree Celsius of global warming, food production could diminish by an alarming 120 calories per person per day.

Maria Paz Gutierrez standing next to a structure that looks like corrugated cardboard.

Milestones

UC Berkeley professor showcases flood-resilient architecture at international exhibition

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

Arts & culture

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

Research

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

Two steelhead trout swim within the bubbling waters of a flowing stream.

A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations

Clouds of white-gray smoke billow from three smokestacks against a blue sky

Nearly 40% of companies missed 2020 climate targets, with no consequences

This BAMPFA documentary series explores the unseen side of climate change

Smoke emerges from forested hills. In the foreground, two fire trucks aim streams of water at a vulnerable home. Overhead, an aircraft releases a plume of red flame retardant chemicals.

Is the Bay Area prepared for major wildfires?

A charred building, surrounded by debris and ash with a view through the structure toward a white-painted home that is intact and undamaged by fire.

What’s next for home insurance in California after the Los Angeles fires?

A helicopter in the center frame drops water on a fire as yellowish smoke clouds the sky.

Health, housing and the path ahead: UC Berkeley researchers on the Los Angeles fires

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

Two people stand on a dirt road that cuts through a green field. Low hills are visible in the distance.

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

white vapor emerging from flaring concrete towers

Breakthrough in capturing ‘hot’ CO2 from industrial exhaust

Two people stand next to one another in a forested area. One person is reading off of their phone while the other is writing something on a small piece of paper.

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

Five firefighters walk across an ashy and barren landscape

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

stacks of blue balls forming a hollow hexagonal tube with orange and blue balls floating around it

Capturing carbon from the air just got easier

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