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Snags cover a mountainside under white puffy clouds.
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Cavan Images via iStock
Forests can’t offset emissions as a carbon store if trees are constantly succumbing to droughts, pests and fires.
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Sunbeams filter down on a algae-covered rocks on a shallow seafloor.
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Johan Holmdahl via iStock
Oxygenated seafloors were likely the cradle of eukaryotic life.
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a gray whale blows in in the San Francisco Bay
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Darrin Allen © NOAA Permit #26532
The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging
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small model house with blue light
Alexis Childress, Experienced Isolation: Home, 2025, Digital Sculpture
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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."
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Whale fluke, with cargo ship in background
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Asha de Vos
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color photograph of Jia-Ching Chen
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Matt Perko
Jia-Ching Chen, May 2026
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overhead shot of giant collage mural on floor with one person touching it
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Courtesy
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.