Trendy dog food formulations lacking in some nutritional elements can bring about unintended harm to your pets.

Early onset puberty has been linked with an increased risk of mental illness and cancer.

Berkeley Lab indoor air experts share their tips on dealing with air pollution.

The university pledges to transition to clean energy by 2025.

The problem isn't what's on our streets. It's the streets themselves.

Powered only by sunlight, a next-generation water harvester has pulled drinking water from thin, desert air.

How UC Merced undergrads are solving real-life problems, from BART escalators to the disappearing monarch butterfly.

The little known history of the land of milk and honey.

More than 8.3 billion metric tons (9.1 billion tons). That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the material now resides in landfills or in the natural environment.

Picture all of the trash you’ve thrown away this week. How much do you think you could reduce that amount if you really tried? By half?

How did we create more tons of plastic than there are people on Earth?