Dennis Baldocchi

According to Scott Stephens, campus professor of fire science, the heightened risks of wildfire this year stem from rapidly drying grasslands after unprecedented amounts of rainfall.

Temperatures soared to the triple digits across the country this week, yet the Bay Area experienced a temperate week in the 70s.

The state of California released an annual report detailing the Climate Investments Program which has implemented nearly $10.5 billion and is expected to cut 76 million metric tons of emissions.

Along with other Bay Area cities, Berkeley experienced a significant heat wave last week as temperatures rose into the upper 80s and low 90s degrees Fahrenheit across the Bay Area on Thursday.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for climate action seemed to be drowned out until the movement was able to adapt to changing circumstances.

Berkeley resident Roxanne Vogel became the first person on Friday to summit Mount Everest and return home in only two weeks, completing a normally two month expedition in a fraction of the time.

The decrease of tule fog in the Central Valley is linked to a decrease in air pollution, according to a study published by UC Berkeley researchers March 28.

Spurred by fears that President Donald Trump will limit climate change discourse, 170 volunteers came together in Doe Library on Saturday and began efforts to archive publicly available data about climate and renewable energy.

SB32 continues the efforts of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which originally passed to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels to 1990 levels by 2020. With the extension, legislators hope that in addition to reaching the 2020 goal, California will further reduce these emissions by an extra 40 percent by 2030.

A team of Berkeley scientists is going hard in the paint, developing a cheap heat-reflective coating that aims to make windows more energy-efficient.