Campus is lauded for its 3 megawatt solar farm, currently the largest in the University of California system.

Representatives from UC campuses and research labs meet to discuss the ambitious systemwide Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

Global ocean warming appears to have been underestimated by 24 to 58 percent.

UC pledges to be carbon neutral by 2025, an ambitious undertaking that no other research university has achieved.

Drought, climate change and other natural and human factors are driving changes at Lake Tahoe.

Sierra Nevada freshwater runoff could drop 26 percent by 2100, caused by increased plant growth at higher elevations.

Thin sheets of ice push enormous rocks across the desert floor of Death Valley when conditions are just right, solving a decades-long mystery.

Study is the first to quantify how quickly these “committed” emissions are growing — by about 4 percent per year — as more fossil fuel-burning power plants are built.

Weather-related changes threaten key natural regulator of the region's water flow.

Researchers reveal state is overextended and is using complicated and outdated water policies.

Measurements wrong due to an error in the way satellite data was processed, research from Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests.

Report is first data-driven national study to provide local estimates for economic impact down to the county level.