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Bren students rejoice during a colorful commencement ceremony.
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Jeff Liang
Bren students rejoice during a colorful commencement ceremony.

Bren’s class of 2025 is ready to face a challenging world

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A collage of marine creatures.
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Harrison Tasoff
Transferable conservation credits could incentivize comprehensive protection the ocean’s diverse habitats and wildlife.

A conservation market could incentivize global ocean protection
A smiling graduate holds up a sash

A week’s worth of commencement activities will celebrate 6,875 graduates for 2023–2024
Yellowstone National Park sign with mountains in the background.
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Anna Pietrzykowska via iStock
National parks are far from the only way to protect areas of land. Systems like, indigenous governance, community management and Eco-certified production can also foster conservation.

A novel approach to tracking conservation reveals more areas may be conserved than currently accounted for
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Investigating the changing disease ecology of California
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Climate change policies lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
Black man with trays of different insects
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Umberto Diecinove

Edible Insect Art Show displays culinary diversity & sustainability
A large field of sunflowers near Sacramento.
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Tfoxfoto via iStock
Tweaks to farming practices could preserve some of California’s declining water resources.

Small changes can yield big savings in agricultural water use
A tractor sprays a soybean field in spring.
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Fotokostic vi iStock
Organic farming practices can increase pesticide use in neighboring, non-organic fields.

Organic farms can have mixed effects on pesticide use depending on their neighbors
Beijing’s Forbidden City lies shrouded in industrial smog.
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Holger Kleine via iStock
China’s infamous air pollution affects its citizens’ minds as well as their bodies.

Clearing the air reduces suicide rates
A person walks past a Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia
Climate concerns likely gave Democrats the White House in 2020

US voters’ climate change opinions swing elections

Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
A school of hammerhead sharks.
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Masayuki Agawa via OceanImageBank

A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks, despite rising mortality trends
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