Reducing leaks are a cost-effective way to save urban water without draining utilities.

“Climate change is occurring, right now,” says Bill Collins, director of the Climate & Ecosystems Division at America’s Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL), in Berkeley, California, and a lead author of the IPCC’s latest assessment. “We have run out of [room] to kick the can down the road.”

In the early 20th century Black farmers owned more than 16 million acres of land and provided food for much of the American population. Now, just over 100 years later, Black farmers have ownership of just 4 million acres of farmland, and only 1 out of every 100 farmers is Black.

There’s a new garden at UC Berkeley, but for Adina Lewis and other Indigenous people in the campus community, it’s much more than flora and fauna. The Indigenous Community Learning Garden is a place where both they and native plants can connect and thrive.

A Roundtable on Climate and Environmental Justice—an intellectual community composed of the newly hired and existing faculty working in the areas of environmental justice and climate equity—will meet regularly to collaborate, share research, and develop joint initiatives.

"Plantrepeneuers" are springing up on social media to dig out space for black people in the natural world