Reposted from the UC Berkeley News The 1972 Clean Water Act has driven significant improvements in U.S. water quality, according to the first comprehensive study of water pollution over the past several decades, by researchers at UC Berkeley and Iowa State University.
Reposted from California Magazine The world certainly seems more flammable these days. Thousands of homes were lost last year in Sonoma County alone, and wildfires have raged across California all summer.
Reposted from The Daily Californian Peter Berck, one of the world's foremost forestry economists and a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, or ARE, died of cancer Aug. 10 at age 68.
Reposted from the UC Berkeley News The 10-campus UC system is approaching a tipping point where it it may not be able to excel without increased state support.
Reposted from UC Davis News Lichen on a Napa County oak tree. (Jesse Miller/UC Davis) Quick Summary Lichen mostly unaffected by low-severity fires. In severely burned areas, nearly all lichen were gone, even 16 years after a fire.
