One of the biggest challenges for sustainable international economic development is the need to control greenhouse gas emissions. Before we can make meaningful progress toward stabilizing the planet’s climate, we need to have an international roadmap for economic growth, job creation and poverty alleviation that still bends the curve on Read More…
A report released last Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of observed global warming in the last few decades. Read More…
Tucked in an unassuming neighborhood in a district two miles southwest of the UC Berkeley campus, the “world’s safest” house stands boldly. And so does Eugene Tssui, a Cal alumnus and the house’s architect. In the past 20 years, the pair has challenged conventional wisdom and defied architecture’s status quo. Buying Read More…
Don’t get me wrong — I think polar bears are adorable. But seeing them trapped on a tiny piece of Arctic ice doesn’t really faze me. What am I supposed to do about it? Stop driving my car? Join Greenpeace? These cuddly polar bears and the Arctic ice sheets have Read More…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to the beach in the winter? What if it meant you could never eat almonds again? Or potatoes? Or cherries? Sure, it’s nice that it’s sunny and warm in the winter now, but global climate change is negatively affecting agriculture around the Read More…
Elizabeth Muller is co-founder of Berkeley Earth with her father, professor Richard Muller. Researchers analyzed climate data from as far back as 1753 to provide a more comprehensive study on global warming than has ever been completed before.
The food movement is vibrant at UC Berkeley. On the weekend of April 21, a group of locals — including some students and faculty members — began an ongoing occupation and planting of the Gill Tract farmland that was about to be plowed and cultivated for federally funded UC researchers Read More…
Mark Hertsgaard, a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, National Public Radio, TIME Magazine and Vanity Fair, warned Thursday of the rising environmental dangers of the changing world climate, as well as the Bay Area’s advantage in addressing the issue, at the fifth annual Town & Gown Conference. Read More…
In addition to providing shade and oxygen, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher’s study published Sept. 14 in the journal Environmental Research Letters proposes that trees could help cool the planet through evaporation. According to the study, evaporated water from trees adds to low-level clouds, which reflect solar radiation back to Read More…