Gail Taylor advocates for vertical farming as a solution to urban food security and drought, emphasizing its role in enhancing, not replacing, outdoor agriculture. Her research focuses on making greens like watercress more nutritious for mechanical harvesting.
UC Davis Prof. Mary L. Cadenasso and colleagues propose a framework for understanding human-natural disasters, highlighting how human actions and natural processes combine to create events like wildfires, exacerbated by climate change.