Twenty-two scientists including lead author Tony Barnosky urge us to understand the danger of global environmental tipping points in their review paper in the June 7 issue of Nature.

Find out about how the Understanding Evolution and Understanding Science websites are being used and recognized around the world.

This month’s Evo in the News on Understanding Evolution looks at incoming UCMP faculty curator Seth Finnegan’s recent research on the Ordovician mass extinction.

UCMP’s Cindy Looy is leading a project to collect 130,000 years worth of sediment data from Clear Lake in order to better understand how life has adapted to climate change. Here’s our first set of dispatches from the field.

Cal Day is the one day of the year when lucky members of the public can tour UCMP’s collection. But this year, on the night before Cal Day, UCMP hosted a special event to take some of our closest friends behind the scenes.

The Archive Project provides rare glimpses into field geology education in the Bay Area at the dawn of the 20th Century.

Read about our exciting, new two-year collections improvement grant to “Complete the rehabilitation of the orphaned USGS fossil invertebrate collection at UCMP.”

Collaboration with visiting photographer Dave Strauss gives UCMP specimens a chance to be seen.