- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Reposted from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources news
Although individual extreme weather events cannot yet be reliably linked to global climate change, the warming planet may be contributing to recent weather disasters in California. Across the state, 129 million trees died as a result of the drought of 2011-2016, many of them in the Sierra Nevada. Last fall, the worst wildfires in the state's history whipped through wildland areas and neighborhoods, and then were followed by a January deluge and deadly mudslide.
Climate change is also impacting agriculture. The winter chill that farmers rely on to re-boot cherry,...
- Author: Matthew Shapero
Reposted from the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog
Reposted from UC Berkeley's CNR News
Dean J. Keith Gilless has been honored with a 2018 Berkeley Faculty Service Award. The award is given annually to a member of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate for their outstanding and dedicated service to the campus. The award recognizes Senate service—an essential to element of shared governance—and contributions that have had a lasting and significant impact on the Berkeley campus.
In their announcement of the award, the Faculty...
- Author: Julie Singer
- Author: Andy Fell