| http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view... |
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Aug 1 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| Almost five years into its 10-year program to develop new energy alternatives using biological tools and methods, the Energy Biosciences Institute is moving its Berkeley headquarters and research labs into a modern new building at the northwest corner of the University of California campus, where Oxford Street and Hearst Avenue join. The EBI will be joined in the new building by researchers from the campus’ Department of Bioengineering. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/27/uc-berkeley-installing-first-co2-senso... |
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Jun 27 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| The City of Oakland will have the first urban sensor network to provide real-time, neighborhood-by-neighborhood measurements of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming – and other air pollutants. The prototype network, being installed by UC Berkeley chemists, will employ 40 sensors over a 27 square-mile grid, most mounted atop local schools. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/12/climate-change-global-fire-risk/ |
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Jun 12 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the western United States, seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years, according to a new analysis led by researchers at UC Berkeley, in collaboration with an international team of scientists. |
| http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/06/191830.htm |
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Jun 7 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| The U.S. State Department announced that UC Berkeley Prof. Daniel Kammen, will be the 2012-2013 Fulbright NEXUS Lead Scholar, leading a group of Fulbright scholars from across the Western Hemisphere, including the United States, who will spend one year addressing public policy challenges through international exchanges, seminars, and collaborative research. |
| http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/03/scientists-core-into-clear-lake-to-exp... |
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May 3 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| UC Berkeley scientists, led by Prof. Cindy Looy of Integrative Biology, are drilling into ancient sediments, some of the world's oldest, at the bottom of Northern California’s Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today’s plants and animals will adapt to climate change and increasing population. |
| http://events.ggbreathe.org/site/TR/AwardLuncheon/CleanAirAwards?fr_id=1270&pg=e... |
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Apr 19 2012 | UC Berkeley News |
| UC Berkeley’s Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP) was honored Thursday with a clean air award from Breathe California. At its awards lunch in San Francisco, the volunteer health organization recognized Berkeley, through its CalCAP initiative, for “significantly reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and demonstrating climate leadership through its student activism, broad organizational partnerships, climate action planning and financial commitment to reducing climate change.” |
| http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/04/coal-free-western-us-future-at-what-price/ |
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Apr 16 2012 | Earth Techling |
| Making the switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles and increased energy efficiency in buildings have both been lauded as important steps in cutting carbon emissions. But in a new report by Prof. Dan Kammen of the Energy and Resources Group, decarbonizing the electric power industry is critical for the U.S. to cut carbon. |
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Aug 22 2011 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Thawing Permafrost Could Release Vast Amounts of Carbon and Accelerate Climate Change by the end of this Century. New computer modeling study, led by a Berkeley Lab scientist, could help revise understanding of permafrost’s role in global warming. |
| Post-Tsunami Japan Teaches the World About Energy Within Limits |
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Jul 29 2011 | The Legal Planet |
| Steve Weissman of UC Berkeley discusses the conservation efforts in Japan in the wake of the nuclear power disaster. The Times reports that while the average Japanese consumer normally uses about half as much power as counterparts in the U.S., residents in Japan have reduced consumption even further in response to the national crisis. |
| Berkeley Lab’s Iconic Dome Gets a New Roof—a Cool One |
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Jul 12 2011 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Berkeley Lab's iconic building, the Advanced Light Source, is getting a new cool roof. The roof meets the specifications set out by Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu directing all Department of Energy facilities to install cool roofs when constructing new roofs or replacing old ones, whenever it's cost effective over the lifetime of the roof. The new roof will reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere, playing a small part in mitigating global warming. |
| Uncovering the Mechanistic Basis for Soil-Microbial-Community Response to Altered Precipitation Patterns |
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Jul 1 2011 | Earth Sciences Division |
| A significant proportion of the turnover rate of terrestrial carbon pools may be determined by the structure of the microbial communities responsible for catalyzing numerous different reactions. Not all carbon is alike, and microbial species within an ecosystem play fundamental and complementary roles in this cycle by harboring the genetic capability to breakdown different kinds of carbon, including recalcitrant compounds. Any loss of microbial biodiversity, brought about through anthropogenic perturbation, can thus have a large effect on the efficiency of this cycle. |
| Resolving Clouds in Climate Change Models |
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Jul 1 2011 | QUEST |
| QUEST reporter talks with Bill Collins, the head of Climate Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, about how faster supercomputers will help scientists run climate simulations, and in particular how climate models incorporate the importance of clouds. |
| Goodbye Ski Slopes, Hello Drought |
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Jun 13 2011 | The Legal Planet |
| Climate change means not only changes in temperature, but changes in precipitation. These precipitation changes are especially important in arid regions like the American West. There is reason to be concerned about the future of Western climate, according to the latest report from ScienceNow. |
| Berkeley Lab Expands Energy Exchanges With India |
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Jun 10 2011 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| With the Indian economy growing by leaps and bounds yet hampered by regular power shortages and blackouts, Indian electricity regulators are in a tough spot. How to wring more electricity from very limited infrastructure? The answer lies in energy efficiency, and through collaborations with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory India is hoping to learn from California’s successes in implementing energy efficiency and demand-side management to meet energy demand. |
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