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A field of potatoes framed by wildflowers in the foreground and forest in the background.
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Grigorev_Vladimir via iStock
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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composite image of pictures of Nobel prize-winning physicists
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Matt Perko, with material from © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin
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photo of detector being lowered
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The MicroBooNE detector being installed at Fermilab
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Older woman with grey hair and blue coat sits outside rustic building
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Elana Resnick
Baka, a waste collector, at home.
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illustration of swimming microbes on dark background
Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean
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color photograph of professor Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
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Matt Perko
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, December 2024
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Aerial view of the ocean, beach and mountains surrounding a university campus
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Jeff Liang
An aerial view of the UC Santa Barbara campus.
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color photograph of musician Deniz Çağlarcan holding a violin
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Transdisciplinary composer, violinist and conductor Deniz Çağlarcan
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illustration of the brain and the corpus callosum
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Life Science Databases, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan
The corpus callosum, in red, connects the two hemispheres of the brain together.
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1880-1893 medical watercolor image of polycystic kidney
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Teniswood, George Francis, "Polycystic kidney," Barts Health NHS Trust Archives, c1880-1893 CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Watercolor drawing showing two views of a polycystic kidney. One shows the external surface of the kidney, the other when the organ is bisected. Drawing given to the Museum by Dr. Draper Mackinder, MD, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
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arrows pointing in both directions black boots
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symbols in artistic form
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Iman Djouini, "Limn," hand pulled silkscreen on Rives BFK 19" x 26"