David Romps

As an extreme heat wave swept over Berkeley, attention has been brought towards climate change and future natural disasters.

An analysis paper by two UC Berkeley researchers found the heat index used by the National Weather Service, or NWS, as an approximate “feels-like” temperature can be extremely inaccurate for severe heat waves.

UC Berkeley environmental experts claim that there is more work to be done in order for the UC system to prove it's making an effort toward sustainability.

CalPIRG hosted a rally in front of Sproul Hall Wednesday to call on world leaders to take greater climate action.

David Romps alleged that BASC faculty rejected his request to invite speaker Dorian Abbot because of Abbot’s social and political beliefs. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it will move to reinstate California’s Clean Air Act waiver, which allows the state to set its own vehicle emissions standards.

On Thursday morning, the California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG, hosted a clean transportation town hall to discuss the urgency of climate change, current actions and solutions. 

The UC Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Science, or EPS, approved the climate science minor, focusing on the basic physics and biogeochemistry of the Earth’s climate.

Melting Arctic sea ice could potentially lead to reduced rainfall in California and exacerbate the possibility and effects of severe drought, a new study found.

David Romps, an assistant professor in the UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Science department and part of a team that created a system to observe cloud behavior, visited the site of his research in Miami Thursday, after first installing the system there in 2012.