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Wind turbines tower over a field of grain under a cloudless Minnesotan sky.
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DonLand via iStock
Putting land to multiple uses is both economically and ecologically wise.

Integrated land planning is necessary to meet climate, food and biodiversity goals

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two ucsb students and the manager of the campus bike shop with a pile of old bike tires
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Matt Perko
Environmental studies undergrads Sophia Long (left) and Virginia Such with A.S. Bike Shop Manager Adam Jahnke, April 2026

UCSB environmental studies team launches tire recycling program at A.S. Bike Shop
grapes, asian pear, apple, persimmon, sweet potato and chestnuts

How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division
Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
A fisherman catches fish in front of an earthen embankment with a dozen yellow construction cranes peaking up behind it, with lush forested hills in the background.
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A fisherman (lower left) catches fish in front of the construction site of Luang Prabang Dam along the Mekong River. Luang Prabang, Laos was named a UNESCO World Heritage site nearly 30 years ago, but the dam project could deprive it of this title.

Rethinking rivers: Their greatest services may be the ones we overlook
Older woman with grey hair and blue coat sits outside rustic building
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Elana Resnick
Baka, a waste collector, at home.

How Europe’s green transition is reinforcing racial inequality
coal plants with smoke
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iStock

How to retire coal, smarter and faster
Three UCSB student athletes hold a recycling can
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Jeff Liang
Former UCSB water polo players (from left) Cami Mras and Aidan Flynn with swimmer and environmental studies senior Ellie Schomberg

Student-led sports-waste recycling initiative takes off at UCSB
Hayden Vega wears a lobster on his head
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Matt Perko

Real-world coral studies spark future in ocean conservation
color photograph of student Matthew Schoen sitting next to shoe donation box overflowing with old sneakers
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Jeff Liang
Zero Waste Committee Co-Chair Matthew Schoen, May 2025

Zero Waste Committee launches shoe-recycling drive, June 2–13
Joan Dudney with hiking gear in the mountains.
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Courtesy Image
Joan Dudney studies the impacts of global change on forests to develop science-based management strategies.

Ecologist Joan Dudney studies forest change in a warming world
A black and white photograph of two people in the atomic devastation of World War II in Hiroshima, Japan
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Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Department of Energy
Hiroshima, November 27, 1945

Girls and women disproportionately harmed by nuclear radiation
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UCSB study helps wildlife safely cross Gaviota Pass
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