Center for Conservation Biology

In April 2025, 35 participants consisting of academic researchers and practitioners in environmental and fire management in California, gathered for a day long workshop to discuss the causes, consequences, and visions for adapting to a new fire regime in southern...

For most of the 20th century, Riverside residents dumped their residential trash on 125 acres near the Santa Ana River. By the mid-1990s, the landfill was closed and deemed a leaking environmental mess. The city fenced it off and spent...

Factories mass produce goods for society and many emit greenhouse gases in the process, but not all are run by humans. Some factories lie underground and are operated around the clock by tireless six-legged workers. A new study in the...

It started with a 2011 study that indicated by the turn of the century there would be no more Joshua trees in the national park named after the iconic desert plant. And likely none in California. “I was shocked when...