Dire messages about global warming can backfire, new UC Berkeley study shows
By Yasmin Anwar / UC Berkeley Dire or emotionally charged warnings about the consequences of global warming can backfire if presented too negatively, making people less amenable to reducing their...
View ArticleInvestments in rural energy efficiency, renewable energy reduce poverty,...
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living is usually...
View ArticleGlobal Warming, Tree Power, Mosquito Bites as Medicine – ECN Roundup | 2.23.11
Global Warming: Science or Sensation? Feeling Warm Makes People More Likely to Believe University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business The debate over the veracity of global warming may be...
View ArticleStudents Harness Cycle Power
Students at the University of California Berkeley have launched a year-long campaign to promote cycle power as the way to commute and kicked off the project with cycle-powered rock music and unique,...
View ArticleUC Berkeley and LBNL Scientists Convert Tobacco into Biofuels
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s FOLIUM Project, use light to convert the carbon dioxide and carbon from tobacco leaves into biofuels. Converting tobacco to a...
View ArticleUC Berkely begins work predicting looming global impacts
A prestigious group of scientists from around the world have published a paper in in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature, warning that population growth, destruction of natural ecosystems, and...
View ArticleNumber of known amphibian species soars, despite global decline
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center Publicity over the past 25 years about the decline of amphibians worldwide has had one positive effect: More and more biologists began scouring the planet for...
View ArticlePrimitive-plant uber-geek’s heart belongs to lycopods
By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate...
View ArticleContaminated site yields wealth of information on microbes 10 feet under
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Naturally occurring bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico did a great job helping to clean up 2010’s huge Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but bacteria can do even heavier lifting....
View Article100 pitch in to reforest a bare hillside in Berkeley
Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Carol Ness A forest-to-be of redwood trees and red-berried toyon shrubs sprouted on a hillside near Lawrence Hall of Science over the weekend, thanks to the hard...
View ArticleEvery drop counts: Taking steps to conserve water
Courtesy of UC Berkeley Water conservation was on everyone’s mind at the inaugural meeting Friday of the Berkeley Sustainability Community, a new forum for environmentally minded students, staff and...
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