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The Promise of Alternative Proteins

Jocelyn C Anderson — September 09, 2024 - 3:28pm

51�ԹϺ�� Davis food scientists are studying how to make beef using cow stem cells.

Compost Key to Sequestering Carbon in the Soil

Katherine E Kerlin — August 14, 2019 - 3:24pm

By moving beyond the surface level and literally digging deep, scientists at the University of California, Davis, found that compost is a key to storing carbon in semi-arid cropland soils, a strategy for offsetting CO2 emissions.

For their 19-year study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in conventional, cover-cropped and compost-added plots of corn-tomato and wheat-fallow cropping systems. They found that:

Nearly Half of California’s Vegetation at Risk From Climate Stress

Katherine E Kerlin — January 25, 2018 - 3:07pm

Current levels of greenhouse gas emissions are putting nearly half of California’s natural vegetation at risk from climate stress, according to a study led by 51�ԹϺ�� Davis. However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce those impacts by half.

The Future Car Is Driverless, Shared and Electric

Katherine E Kerlin — March 13, 2017 - 12:25pm

The nation’s top transportation experts see rapid change in transportation as a result of three major technology revolutions: shared, electric and automated vehicles. That’s according to a survey by the Institute of Transportation Studies at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis. The group also released a set of policy briefs, described below, which were guest-authored by leading transportation policy experts.

Global shift to bicycling could save world trillions of dollars, 10 percent of transport emissions

IET WebDev — November 12, 2015 - 8:40am

A dramatic global shift to increased cycling and electric biking, or e-biking, could cut energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from urban transport by up to 10 percent by 2050 compared to current estimates, while saving society nearly $25 trillion. That is according to a report by the University of California, Davis, and the New York-based Institute for Transportation & Development Policy.

The report, “A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario,” takes a comprehensive look at the future of cycling for urban transportation.