Let it burn: Prescribed fires pose little danger to forest ecology, study says
UC Berkeley-led research is giving the green light to fighting fire with fire. An analysis of controlled burns and mechanical thinning nationwide did not find substantial ecological harm from...
View ArticleAnalysis of global fire risk shows big, fast changes ahead
Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world โ with some regions, such as the western U.S., seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years, according to a new...
View ArticleState taps UC researchers for expertise on climate change impacts
Some 15 UC Berkeley researchers were among scores of California experts who submitted papers to the California Energy Commission detailing how climate change will impact the state on the local and...
View Article100 pitch in to reforest a bare hillside near Lawrence Hall
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 work of 100 volunteers from the UC Berkeley campus...
View ArticleQ&A: Campus environmental manager Tom Klatt talks about hillside tree-removal...
UC Berkeley, along with the City of Oakland and the East Bay Regional Park District, has applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to remove trees in the East Bay hills to reduce the...
View ArticleIn Rim Fireโs wake, lessons for saving our forests
UC Berkeley professor Scott Stephens lost 400 research sites in the Sierra Nevada fire, but the harm to the forest ecosystem is incalculable. He's hopeful that future Rim Fires can still be prevented.
View ArticleTime is ripe for fire detection satellite, say Berkeley scientists
Physicist Carl Pennypacker, fire expert Scott Stephens and remote sensing specialist Maggi Kelly have designed a fire-spotting satellite that they believe could be built for a few hundred million...
View ArticleBigger, more frequent wildfires burn Western United States, study finds
Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years, a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to...
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