A recent Natural Capital Project led study co-authored by Assistant Professor Alejandra Echeverri calculates the value that ecosystems in Colombia’s Upper Sinú Basin contribute to key economic sectors like energy and water. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2025/05/h…

“The grit of a life lived in the region—the show is tapping into that," Associate Professor Arthur Middleton told The Hollywood Reporter's Rebecca Keegan. "Yellowstone makes people want a piece of the landscape.” hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…

Nancy Peluso’s long-term commitment to the people and forests of Indonesia has helped her better understand the way that social, political, and natural worlds collide. “I don’t believe there are untouched forests. Everything is in some way socio-natural.” nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/…

Disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles experience significantly higher concentrations and emissions of hazardous air pollutants, according to a recent study led by ESPM professor Allen Goldstein and co-first authors Jennifer Ofodile and Eva Pfannerstill. nature.berkeley.edu/news/2025/05/l…

Congratulations to Charlie Kortleven, Neel Bajaria, Alexandra Boren, and Nikita Bahadur on being named winners of the 2025 Babcock Prize, which recognizes exceptional academic achievement by graduating ESPM seniors. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2025/05/f…

Import taxes have long been a feature of international trade, but Associate Professor Dara O'Rourke, who has studied wages in Nike factories, recently told journalists at the The Oregonian and ProPublica that a trade war could become a “huge hammer.” propublica.org/article/nike-t…

Assistant Professor @urbanschell and alums Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 and Phoebe Parker-Shames recently spoke to The New York Times reporter Heather Knight about one of San Francisco’s most polarizing urban residents: coyotes. nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/…

Professor Paolo D'Odorico and postdoctoral scientist Tobia Rinaldo are part of a new multidisciplinary effort involving researchers from seven UC campuses focused on better understanding the sources, impacts, and future of dust in California. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2025/05/r…

As climate changes and drought intensifies, a new analysis led by ESPM researchers reveals that human activity, namely irrigation, more strongly shapes groundwater supplies in northern Italy's Po Plain than natural dynamics like snowpack or precipitation. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2025/05/i…

A new Society for Conservation Biology study, authored by researchers at the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship and collaborators, finds that national park visitors would donate to a fund to support conservation efforts around the parks. nature.berkeley.edu/stewardship/ne…

Northern California could be spared this fire season, but Professor Scott Stephens cautions that high winds and dry conditions can turn Southern California into a matchbox with “the most extreme fire danger of almost anywhere on the planet.” sacbee.com/news/local/art…

Since 1888, more than 15,000 scientists, storytellers, and educators—including many from UC Berkeley—have been named National Geographic Explorers. We highlight a handful of Explorers with ties to Rausser College in our spring magazine. nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/…

🎧 #BerkeleyTalks podcast: UC Berkeley Professor Timothy Bowles and journalist Michael Grunwald discuss the impact of our current agricultural methods and debate the ways we can ramp up food production without causing more harm to the environment. news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/30/ber…

Cooperative Extension professor Ted Grantham leads the COEQWAL project, which couples water and climate modeling with community engagement to provide California with new state-of-the-art water planning and stewardship tools. mavensnotebook.com/2025/06/03/not…

Thank you California Natural Resources Agency for joining the #UrbanBiodiversity Roundtable with Berkeley Wildlife & the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship! 📸: CNRA Deputy Secretary of Habitat & Biodiversity Meghan Hertel (left) and ESPM professor Chris Schell. #CA30x30 #conservation

Congratulations to PhD candidates Yihong Zhu and Sheherazade, who are among the latest recipients of graduate fellowships from the Philomathia Center.

Assistant Professor Rachel Carlson's latest study explores whether some of Hawaii's coastal businesses, which benefit greatly from threatened coral ecosystems, may serve as an untapped funding source for reef conservation and restoration. Learn more: ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2025/06/a…

Graduate students Sarah Sarfaty Epstein and Cynthia Wilson were named 2025 Switzer Foundation Fellows, which supports next-generation leaders in the public and private sectors who are dedicated to creating positive environmental change. Read more: nature.berkeley.edu/news/2025/06/t…

The Joint Genome Institute (@JGI) has supported cutting-edge genomic research for nearly three decades. Learn more about how Professors Jill Banfield and Matteo Garbelotto have utilized the facility in their work. newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/06/16/adv…

Professor Kate O'Neill spoke to The New York Times about Malaysia’s ban on importing plastic waste from the United States, and how this change could result in waste being redirected to countries that are less equipped to handle it. nytimes.com/2025/07/01/cli…