Environmental Research

As agriculture and food production achieve greater high-tech heights and resources such as water become more scarce, the country will increasingly depend on innovative solutions from its brightest minds.

One of California’s greatest energy challenges is finding innovative ways to lower natural gas consumption to help reduce gr

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Kestrels are a fixture among the birds on the Merced Vernal

By Dan Krotz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists expect subalpine trees to advance upslope as global temperatures increase, following their climate up the mountains.

But new research published Dec. 15 in the journal Global Change Biology suggests this might not hold true for two subalpine tree species of western North America.

UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing informatio

Stephen Ho’s experience at UC Merced helped him land an internship with E. & J.

If fictional scientist Victor Frankenstein had created a mate for his nameless Creature, humans would have gone ex

The Student Sustainability Council is hosting the second annual EcoFest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, on Scholars Lane, hoping to encourage the campus’s culture of sustainability.

Fifty years ago this year, while a freshman faculty member in the University of Chicago Physics Department, Roland Winston published a paper introducing a new field