Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.

Program will help launch seven major projects focused on advancing strategic research goals.

Greenhouse gases emissions down to 1990 levels and major steps are initiated to ramp up renewable energy use.

Awards totaling an anticipated $5 million will fuel intercampus research into a sustainable future for the state and nation.

An attractive alternate to regular paper, technology helps address increasing problems in environment and resource sustainability.

iGEM team worked to engineer a microbe to produce biofuel from cellulose.

Campus will add 11,700 panels to three parking structure roofs.

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

Savings from new sustainability projects will be rolled over to fund future projects.

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

Biology and genetic engineering join forces to fuel production of a type of alcohol in E. coli.

UC Merced will get 75 percent of its power from renewable sources by the end of 2016, and is on its way to being 100 percent renewably powered by then.