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Aerial view of Lake Tefé during a severe drought, when its waters are low.
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Miguel Monteiro
Severe drought and heat in the central amazon turned Lake Tefé into a shallow spa, killing fish and endangered river dolphins.

Hotter than your average spa: Rising temps in Amazon lakes sound alarm over climate change

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coal plants with smoke
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iStock

How to retire coal, smarter and faster
color photograph of Caroline Smith and Halia Fleming standing in front of Morro Rock
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Bren Environmental Leadership fellows Caroline Smith (left) and Halia Fleming in Morro Bay, CA

Bren School leadership program highlights mentorship and student research
Aerial view of the ocean, beach and mountains surrounding a university campus
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Jeff Liang
An aerial view of the UC Santa Barbara campus.

UCSB praised for excellence, access and value in national rankings
A government official inspects dozens of large fish on the concrete after seizing illegal gillnets (in background) in the Gulf of California.
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Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (PROFEPA)
Totoaba poaching continues in the Gulf of California despite a 50-year fishing ban. But farming the fish for export may curb poaching.

Farmed totoaba could curb poaching
Three tropical cyclones in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
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NASA
The El Niño Southern Oscillation drives major weather patterns across the globe. Disrupting it could have intense and far-reaching ramifications.

A hard look at geoengineering reveals global risks
A placid lake with background mountains perfectly reflected on its surface.
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Matt Perko

Jim Salzman elected to prestigious environmental law society for bridging economics, nature and policy
The sun glistens through water droplets on blades of grass.
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Matt Perko

Grasses are spendthrifts, forests are budgeters, in a nuanced account of plant water use
A barracuda school off Bikar Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monitoring fishing activity far from shore presents a challenge for resource management and marine conservation.

Satellites show that strictly protected marine areas exclude industrial fishing
drone footage of river with water based plastic trash collectors
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Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
A depiction of various river plastic collection technologies utilized for data collection

How plastic pollution flows from rivers to oceans — and how to stop it
Old, abandoned barn in a large field with white wildflowers and prairie grass.
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Richard McMillin via iStock
While global trends dominate environmental outcomes, decisions about recultivating or rewilding abandoned fields can influence habitat health.

Protecting nature may depend on where — not just how — we farm
Headshot of Andrew Plantinga on a background of conifer trees.
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emLab
Andrew Plantinga

Andrew Plantinga recognized for shaping environmental policy through economic insight
Erosion has exposed the cross-section of a forest from the canopy and understory to the subsoil and parent material.
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tarasov_vl via iStock
A new model provides a look into the dynamic feedback between soil moisture levels and plants’ water-use strategies.

A nuanced model of soil moisture illuminates plant behavior and climate patterns
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