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A student looks at images of bees in the library corridor.
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Harrison Tasoff
Natural history collections like the one housed at UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration hold valuable data accumulated over 100 years.
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A giant sea bass cruises the deep reef.
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Merry Passage
Southern California’s population of giant sea bass is recovering from overfishing, but progress is slow.
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A sweaty child on a playground.
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Yaoinlove via iStock
Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.
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Joan Dudney with hiking gear in the mountains.
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Joan Dudney studies the impacts of global change on forests to develop science-based management strategies.
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A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Sakkmesterke vi Adobe Stock
Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.
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A rat sits on a bag of grain.
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H. Zell via Wikimedia
The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.