A landmark accomplishment for the campus, two years ahead of its goal.
The true cost of free shipping
Online shopping isn’t helping the climate-change fight — but there are simple solutions.
Stopping an environmental disaster before it’s too late
How UC research sounded the alarm on the ozone layer.
Is it really possible to live a zero-waste life?
Picture all of the trash you’ve thrown away this week. Do you think you could reduce it by half? Lauren Singer thinks you can take it all the way to zero, and she has the total lack of garbage to prove it.
UC’s #MyLastTrash campaign asks you to help push campuses toward zero waste
A new effort strives to transform habits and meet an ambitious 2020 goal.
New reports detail how to limit global warming, warn of ‘existential’ risk from not acting soon
Two new reports find that cutting CO2 emissions will not be enough to stop catastrophic global warming, but we have more tools at our disposal.
Cyborg bacteria turn into tiny, zero-waste solar panels
Chemists create a more efficient photosynthesis that can help produce green fuel.
How a (nearly) zero-carbon conference can be a better conference
Borrowing a page from Netflix can help slash university emissions by as much as a third.
UC sustainability: Students and solar light the way forward
The 2016 UC Sustainability Report highlights the university's big steps in the right direction as well as the hurdles ahead.
How UC research led to a landmark global deal against superpollutants
More than 170 countries will phase out HFCs, based on seminal research by a UC San Diego atmospheric scientist.
Climate change hits the classroom
Hundreds of new sections on climate change in courses from music to medicine are coming to UC classrooms.
Tree of life faces deep cuts from climate change
A new study finds rarer, older lineages may go first when climate change leads some species to extinction.