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Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
September 11, 2025

When Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe arrived at UC Merced in 2009, she and her husband, Professor Teamrat Ghezzehei, were leaving major research institutions to join a brand-new campus in California’s...

Photo depicts a silhouette of California firefighters battling a lightning-caused fire in 2020.
September 3, 2025

Lightning from thunderstorms rolling through Central California on Sept. 2 ignited numerous wildfires, including several large fires in the Sierra Nevada foothills that had burned more than 19 square...

A sign posted on a tree in Eastern Europe warns of active land mines.
July 24, 2025

More than 100 million land mines remain buried around the world, posing a threat in approximately 70 countries and territories, and killing or injuring about 5,000 people, most of them civilians,...