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New collection examines the lasting effects of purity culture

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Snags cover a mountainside under white puffy clouds.
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Forests can’t offset emissions as a carbon store if trees are constantly succumbing to droughts, pests and fires.

Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change
Sunbeams filter down on a algae-covered rocks on a shallow seafloor.
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Oxygenated seafloors were likely the cradle of eukaryotic life.

Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years
a gray whale blows in in the San Francisco Bay
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The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging

New AI system uses cameras and thermal sensors to steer ships clear of gray whales in the San Francisco Bay
concept illustration of the energy landscape of 2D materials

The first-time direct observation of exotic charge-neutral quasiparticles in twisted tungsten diselenide
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Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture

MFA students featured in exhibition at AD&A Museum
illustration of a person walking a tightrope between two heads, one thinking dark thoughts, the other thinking good thoughts
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Culture plays key role in people comfortable with contradiction and change
A women in a black sweater and pink top sits on a chair, pointing, as another women in jeans with long grey hair looks her direction
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Jeff Liang
Playwright Melinda Lopez, left, with director Risa Brainin, during a rehearsal of "Standing Still."

Time to roll up your yoga mat and take a stand
Whale fluke, with cargo ship in background
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Asha de Vos

Global workshop focuses on protecting whales from ship strikes
color photograph of Jia-Ching Chen
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Matt Perko
Jia-Ching Chen, May 2026

Global studies professor wins Fulbright to study energy geopolitics in Taiwan
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College of Creative Studies students created a mural for the exhibition “Scaling the Walls” at the Channing Peake Gallery and the Santa Barbara City Hall Gallery.

UCSB students and alumni featured in mural exhibition
wildfire smoke rises behind a row of houses

Wildfire resilience has always been the goal. Now it's a number
giant kelp on a sandy beach

Kelp forests connected to sandy beach food webs
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