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a charging cable into an electric vehicle at sunset.
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Accounting for the emissions over a vehicle’s entire lifecycle overturns the sunk-cost thinking that keeps gasoline vehicles on the roads.

Thinking about trading your car in for an EV? There’s a compelling new reason to do it now

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A shark fin sticks out of the ice at a fish market.
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Small and easily stored, shark fins can be far more valuable than the rest of the animal’s carcass.

Combining fishing regulations and trade data reveals the complex global market for shark products
Christopher Costello
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Matt Perko
Christopher Costello

Christopher Costello recognized for his pioneering work in environmental markets
An oil palm plantation at edge of rainforest with a boarder of trees that were logged to clear land for agricultural expansion.
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Crafting strategies to stop deforestation will require understanding the factors that accelerate and arrest it.

Declines in deforestation aren’t driven by corporate sustainability pledges
A group of elephants prepare to cross a road as oncoming headlights can be seen in the distance.
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Elephants and humans could be headed for a collision in Southern Africa as climate change and bears down and more land comes under cultivation.

Human expansion will fuel more conflict with elephants without careful planning
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UCSB names new dean of its prestigious Bren School
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Commencement 2026 celebrates accomplishment, purpose and community
The graduates of 2026 in the courtyard below the trees, low angle
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Jeff Liang
Bren's class of 2026 face the future with new skills, expertise and determination.

The Bren School’s new graduates are ready to face the challenges of the times
A mosquito feeds on a person's skin.
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California's warming climate is making the state more hospitable to dengue virus, and to the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry it.

As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to grow
A deer looks a pair of hikers walking down a snow-covered trail.
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Our presence affects animals beyond merely how we’ve modified the landscape.

Data on human and wildlife movement during the pandemic suggest new ways for us to coexist
Wind turbines tower over a field of grain under a cloudless Minnesotan sky.
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Putting land to multiple uses is both economically and ecologically wise.

Integrated land planning is necessary to meet climate, food and biodiversity goals
Black woman with glasses in beauty aisle looking at products
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‘Clean’ beauty products for textured hair often contain hidden hazards
Shelly Gable, David Morrison, Javier Read de Alaniz, Kelly Caylor
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Matt Perko and Jeff Liang
Shelly Gable, David Morrison, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Kelly Caylor

UCSB professors honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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