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Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.
Heat exposure in California schools prompts multi-campus research project
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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies
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Left to right: Leda Cosmides, Adina Roskies, Rachel Segalman
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium
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Ethan Turpin & Naomi Tague
"Tree Water," detail, 2024
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Untold amounts of toxic waste were carelessly, though legally, disposed of off the California coast. Their presence continues to haunt human and wildlife health.
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City of Santa Monica
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