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  • Irrigation water may ice some flowers, but help protect flowers in the upper canopy from frost damage. Photo by Allen Vizcarra
    Climate change may reduce frost damage to orchard crops

    Jan 23, 2023

    • Agriculture
  • With nearly 520,000 acres planted in California in 2021, pistachios are the fastest-growing tree nut crop in the state. California dominates the pistachio industry, growing 99 percent of the nation's crop and nearly 60 percent of the world's crop. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    NIFA funds $3.8 million project to find climate-resilient pistachio trees

    Dec 16, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • The newly released report outlines the need for continued implementation of California's four-part strategy for dairy methane reduction: farm efficiency and herd attrition, methane avoidance (alternative manure management), methane capture and utilization (digesters), and enteric methane reduction. Photo by Elena Zhukova
    Report: California on path to significant dairy methane reduction

    Dec 14, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Excessive heat can cause crop loss such as in grapes. CalAgroClimate tools help growers prepare for extreme weather. Photo by George Zhuang
    New interactive web tools help growers cope with climate change

    Nov 18, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • Graduates of the National Forest Foundation-sponsored course for UC California Naturalists went on to intern with Cleveland National Forest. Photo courtesy UC California Naturalist program
    UC California Naturalist Conference, Oct. 7–9, highlights environmental challenges, diverse voices

    Sep 26, 2022

    • Environment
    • Innovation
    • Natural Resources
  • UC Cooperative Extension has created a disaster preparedness website with information to help the public prepare for extreme heat, earthquakes, power shutoffs and wildfire.
    Disaster resources available to prepare for heat, wildfire, power outages, quakes

    Sep 1, 2022

    • Environment
    • Family
    • Health
  • Rice experiments being conducted in a field. Photo by Julia Bailey-Serres/UC Riverside
    New strategies to save the world’s most indispensable grain

    May 27, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • Parthenocissus tricuspidata, known as Boston ivy, growing at the Hickey Gym on the UC Davis campus. Photo by Emily C. Dooley, UC Davis
    Can vines speed urban cooling?

    Apr 21, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • A view of one plot in the artificial rainfall experiment at Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center. Photo by Marko Spasojevic, UCR
    With dwindling water supplies, the timing of rainfall matters

    Apr 20, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Automated chambers measuring soil gas emissions in a field of young sudangrass at Desert Research and Extension Center in Imperial County. Photo by Holly Andrews
    Drip irrigation in arid regions can cut greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality

    Apr 8, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Health
  • UC Davis is leading a five-year, $15 million research project to accelerate wheat breeding to meet new climate realities. Photo by Vlad Stawizki on Unsplash
    UC Davis to lead $15 million research into climate-change resistant wheat

    Feb 8, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • A new suggests that low-density stands that largely eliminate tree competition are key to creating forests resilient to stressors such as severe wildfire, drought and bark beetles. Photo by Elena Zhukova
    Just what is a ‘resilient’ forest, anyway?

    Jan 19, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • UC Davis researchers hope to help the wine industry by identifying traits linked to drought tolerance in grapevine rootstocks. Photo by Gregory Urquiaga
    Researchers pinpoint drought-resistant traits in grape rootstocks

    Dec 17, 2021

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
  • UC Davis Professor Isaya Kisekka and students measure soil moisture content using a neutron probe at the UC Davis Agricultural Research Station in 2018.
    UC Davis to lead groundwater and irrigated agriculture sustainability study

    Oct 18, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Cabernet sauvignon grapes. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark
    Increasing temperatures led to better-tasting wine grapes, but for how long?

    Oct 4, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California shows how Californians are working together across a diversity of communities and landscapes to improve resilience and address climate justice.
    New book shows how Californians are bolstering climate resilience

    Sep 10, 2021

    • Environment
  • Climate-ready trees were planted by a USFS team in June 2021.
    The importance of trees to cool urban heat islands

    Aug 26, 2021

    • Environment
  • A new book by Faith Kearns offers advice for effective science communication. Kearns talks with the Generous Films documentary production team at the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County in 2019. Photo by Jared Stapp
    Communicating about climate crisis and other scientific issues requires more than facts

    May 11, 2021

    • Environment
  • Plants regrow on a landscape scorched by the Thomas Fire of 2017. Photo by Annemiek Schilder
    How will climate change affect Southern California?

    Apr 6, 2021

    • Environment
  • Trees beautify and cool a boulevard in Palm Springs. (Photo: Pixabay)
    Lush urban forests can help communities face climate change

    Mar 17, 2021

    • Environment
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