• The Future of Water

    The Future of Water

    Post on May 21, 2013 by from

    Freshwater expert Sandra Postel reveals how water is destined to become our most precious resource— and the impact of your personal water footprint.

  • Thinking Like a Pirate – or a Scientist

    Thinking Like a Pirate – or a Scientist

    Post on May 16, 2013 by from

    New understandings about how scientists think inspire changes in school science standards.

  • Are Doughnuts Destroying Forests?

    Are Doughnuts Destroying Forests?

    Post on May 14, 2013 by from

    A conversation with a forestry expert reveals doughnuts as unlikely contributors to global deforestation.

  • Next Meal: Engineering Food

    Next Meal: Engineering Food

    Video on May 07, 2013 by from

    Are the benefits of genetically engineered foods worth the risks? This half-hour QUEST Northern California special explores the pros and cons of genetically engineered crops, and what the future holds for research and regulations.

  • Solar plane takes off on historic cross-country trip

    Solar plane takes off on historic cross-country trip

    Post on May 03, 2013 by from

    Lighter than an SUV and covered with more than 12,000 solar cells, Solar Impulse, the world's first solar plane that can fly day and night without recharging, launched from Moffet Field this morning in a cross country voyage.

  • Top Cats: How Pumas and Other Apex Predators' Populations Affect The Big Biodiversity Picture

    Top Cats: How Pumas and Other Apex Predators' Populations Affect The Big Biodiversity Picture

    Post on May 01, 2013 by from

    Apex predators exert far-reaching effects on ecosystems that surface just decades after their disappearance. Santa Cruz researchers hope to understand how human activities and development affect how pumas use the landscape to help mitigate conflicts and plan for the species' long-term survival.

  • Air Pollution Lurks Inside Your Home

    Air Pollution Lurks Inside Your Home

    Post on Apr 29, 2013 by from

    Californians spend over 45 billion dollars each year on health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Scientists at Berkeley Lab have identified the indoor air pollutants with the greatest health consequences, and they are now looking for ways to improve indoor air quality.

  • Another Try For California's Second National Conservation Area

    Another Try For California's Second National Conservation Area

    Audio Report on Apr 26, 2013 by from

    Just north of the Bay Area is a vast and varied expanse of land and water that could be in line for new federal protections. The proposed Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Conservation Area would link wilderness zones and other lands in five counties. But it’s been a tough sell in some parts.

  • Science on the SPOT: The Glowing Millipedes of Alcatraz

    Science on the SPOT: The Glowing Millipedes of Alcatraz

    Video on Mar 19, 2013 by from

    More than a million visitors visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows of this historic prison.

  • Science on the SPOT: Preserving the Forest of the Sea

    Science on the SPOT: Preserving the Forest of the Sea

    Video on Feb 05, 2013 by from

    UC Berkeley's University Herbarium boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of seaweed in the United States. Herbarium curator Kathy Ann Miller is leading a massive project to preserve digitally nearly 80,000 specimens of west coast seaweed.

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  • Air Pollution Lurks Inside Your Home

    Air Pollution Lurks Inside Your Home

    Californians spend over 45 billion dollars each year on health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Scientists at Berkeley Lab have identified the indoor air pollutants with the greatest health consequences, and they are now looking for ways to improve indoor air quality.

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  • Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley: Documenting the Poisoning of America’s Wetland

    Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley: Documenting the Poisoning of America’s Wetland

    In the new exhibition on display at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, "Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach's Cancer Alley," the Berkeley photographer takes a hard look at the environmental consequences of our dependence on petroleum.

    Apr 03, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Arsenic and Old Wells

    Arsenic and Old Wells

    Six years after the EPA's new arsenic rule for drinking water went into effect, poor communities in the San Joaquin Valley—who can’t afford the costs of complying with the stricter standard—face the highest risk of exposure to unsafe arsenic levels.

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    Mar 06, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post