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A field of potatoes framed by wildflowers in the foreground and forest in the background.
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Agriculture and timber production need not come at the expense of carbon storage and biodiversity.

Better land use and management could improve biodiversity, climate and economic development

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coal plants with smoke
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two researchers on a boat
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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor
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Ruins of an ancient temple beneath a blue sky and clouds
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Tikal, in Guatemala, is among the major sites of the Classic Mayan civilization.
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exhibition with large sculpture
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Moe Wakai
Kim Garcia, "What you can never fully hold," 2025
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modern dancers with arms and legs intertwined
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Fritz Olenberger
UCSB's Santa Barbara Dance Theater
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A forest sits atop an eroding bluff.
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Anna Trugman researches how plants respond to climate change, while Gen Li studies erosion and weathering — the natural processes that break down rocks and transport sediment.
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Alexis Okeowo
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Alexis Okeowo
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close up of woman at beach
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025
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exhibition
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara