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A tractor sprays fertilizer or pesticides on a green field.
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Synthetic fertilizer has increased the amount of nitrogen compounds in the biosphere, compounds that must be converted by microbes back into nitrogen gas.

A rare atomic fingerprint reveals how ecosystems clean nitrogen pollution

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Rivers running down a mountainous valley
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Jeff Prancevic
Streams like this one can run dry during periods of drought. This study provides new analyses to help predict when and where streams flow.

Predicting seasonal changes in river networks
artist rendition of asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere

Researchers model airbursts, a common yet little-understood cosmic impact process
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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit

Charting the course of rivers
Headshot of Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer

Library acquires papers of Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer
SEM image of shocked quartz
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Shocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass

Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst
Theo world map fading into blue water.
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UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles
Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.
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Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.

Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change
A river meanders through forests and fields in Columbia.
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Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.

Managing meandering waterways in a changing world
a photo cradle attached to the rail of steps leading to beach
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Sonia Fernandez
The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach

UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes
the sun sinks behind the horizon of the Black Sea

Anoxic marine basins are among the best candidates for deep-sea carbon sequestration
early evening stars over a desert landscape

Farmers and ranchers in the Southwestern U.S. face challenges due to human-induced atmospheric warming
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