geography

Humanities

Uncovering the roots of prison labor in America

Two Berkeley doctoral students dissect how prison labor programs — such as California's use of incarcerated firefighters — evolved and why they persist.

a person looks at the camera through the sides of her eyes

Campus & community

Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has

Jovan Scott Lewis portrait

Politics & society

What does California owe descendants of the enslaved?

green jungle with broken trees

Research

Climate change likely to uproot more Amazon trees

red and blue temperature map of eastern Pacific

Earth-sun distance dramatically alters seasons in equatorial Pacific in a 22,000-year cycle

photo of Yosemite Valley with Tenaya Canyon in center

How old is Yosemite Valley?

people look at display cases in a library exhibit

New exhibit showcases cartographic treasures from The Bancroft Library

a grape leaf with a small puddle of green copper-based fungicide

Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion

Meg Mills-Novoa smiles in front of a tree

Meet our new faculty: Meg Mills-Novoa, geography

hand drawn map of Alcatraz

Library’s ‘Mapping the Bay’ contest calls for submissions

Clancy Wilmott looks away from the camera

Meet our new faculty: Clancy Wilmott, geography

lake coring

Maya more warlike than previously thought

Mable Howard and her daughter Mildred looking at something out of the photograph

Berkeley Talks: Berkeley artist Mildred Howard on the impact of gentrification in the Bay Area

Gillian Hart received the Vega Medal from the Crown Princess of Sweden on April 24 (Photo by Henrik Garlöv/Kungahuset.se)

Geography professor emerita Gillian Hart wins Vega Medal

Expert on rip currents warns of dangers at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach

Getting the U.S. election all mapped out

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