Under current guidelines, the planet is on target to warm up by 2 degrees Celsius in 2050 and by 4 degrees in 2100, triggering serious large-scale problems by the end of the century. UC San Diego's climate scientist V. Ramanathan accurately predicted this trend back in 1980. He says that if we make an effort to adopt existing technology today, we might be able to change our course on climate.

The fellowships will fund projects, from the classroom to the operating room, that will steer the UC system toward its carbon neutrality goal.

Select instructors at each campus will work with students on projects aimed at building community engagement and awareness.

These solutions offer a practical framework outlining both immediate and longer-term actions for moving toward carbon neutrality.

UC pledges to stop contributing to climate change while going about its normal business. Can the lessons we’re learning here be scaled up to the nation and the world? 

Renowned atmospheric scientist V. Ramanathan of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography explains how the state of California and the UC system together can lead the charge through the Carbon Neutrality Initiative and ‘bend the curve’ in global warming.

'We’re on our way to becoming the very first university system to wipe out our carbon footprint for good.'

Nation’s largest planned zero net energy community is 82 percent on the way to its goal.

Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.

Researchers at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun.  

Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley shares an insider’s view on what inspired Pope Francis to issue a passionate plea to protect the Earth. Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm joins in a lively exchange with Kammen and Henry E. Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Fire ecologist spells out what could be ahead for the Southland in this fourth year of severe drought. (Image courtesy of Cal Fire)