UC Irvine |

Pure electricity

UC Irvine becomes the first college in the nation to convert to all-electric bus fleet.

Berkeley Lab |

$5M foundation gift to help support US-China energy center

Gift will also create Berkeley Lab’s first endowed chair.

UC Berkeley |

Learning to live without plastic

A professor challenges the ease with which we turn to synthetic materials.

UC Riverside |

New technology will cut plug-in hybrid fuel consumption by one-third

Researchers look to birds flying in formation and find a way to make vehicles more efficient.

UC Berkeley |

Global warming hiatus disproved — again

Study confirms steady warming of oceans for past 45 years.

Berkeley Lab |

Berkeley Lab awarded $4.6M for transformational agriculture technologies

Two projects will provide a window to the underground, yielding information on roots and soil.

UC Davis |

A house designed for drought

UC Davis students tackle the water crisis in their entry for the Department of Energy’s 2017 Solar Decathlon.

UC Irvine |

In a national first, UC Irvine injects renewable hydrogen into campus power supply

Power-to-gas technique offers new way to store and use excess wind and solar energy.

UCLA |

Chilling climate revelations from a previous ice age

Major changes in ice and temperatures could cause abrupt transformations elsewhere, study shows.

UC Riverside |

Using plants and quantum physics for potential superefficient solar cells

Physicist discovers how to make photocells mimic the way plants maximize their absorption of sunlight.

UC Berkeley |

The future of nuclear energy

New startups are paving the way for a leaner, greener version of the power source.

Pacific Standard |

The extraordinary effects of dust on global weather

Climate change could double the volume of dust in the atmosphere, warn UC San Diego scientists.