Environmental Research

Several students, faculty members and the provost represented UC Merced at the University of California’s recent Carbon Slam event, placing in the presentation competitions and increasing the campus’s visibility among peers and the public.

One of the campus’s newest professors is teaching one of its newest classes on one of the world’s oldest subjects: dinosaurs.

But there’s much more to Professor Justin Yeakel’s Natural History of Dinosaurs class than just talking about T-rex and the velociraptors.

The number, size and duration of large mountain forest fires in the Western United States has increased dramatically in the past 40 years, according to research from UC Merced

Everyone knows UC Merced is growing, but pretty soon, the campus will be growing lots of plant specimens for research, too.

The UC Merced campus is getting greener and earning gold as it does — gold ratings, that is.

Besides attending Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) with 1,200 other college students from arou

Most people probably don’t think about food when considering how to celebrate Earth Day.

Professor Michael Beman, with the School of Natural Sciences, became the 13th faculty member to win a Nat

If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations.

An increased gift from longtime campus partner Wells Fargo is allowing more engineering students at the University of California, Merced, to focus on solutions to problems related to water, energy and food.

Wells Fargo awarded its Clean Technology and Innovation Grant to the UC Merced School of Engineering’s senior Innovation Design Clinic (IDC). The $125,000 gift — $25,000 more than last year — supports IDC’s efforts to develop, design and create engineering solutions addressing the critical water, energy, food (WEF) nexus.