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Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.
UCSB professor tapped to co-author the seventh IPCC assessment report on climate change mitigation
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UC Santa Barbara
Declines in water clarity are a pressing concern for coastal ecosystems.
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Snaring is an important hunting method. But it’s impact on African wildlife has become unsustainable.
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Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean
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Miguel Monteiro
Severe drought and heat in the central amazon turned Lake Tefé into a shallow spa, killing fish and endangered river dolphins.
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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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Bren Environmental Leadership fellows Caroline Smith (left) and Halia Fleming in Morro Bay, CA
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Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (PROFEPA)
Totoaba poaching continues in the Gulf of California despite a 50-year fishing ban. But farming the fish for export may curb poaching.
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Jordan Thomas/ Penguin Publishing Group
Centuries of misguided policy, politics and prejudice have primed the land for the unprecedented infernos that wildland firefighters now face every year.
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Grace Han’s research centers on solar fuels that capture sunlight and convert it into usable heat.
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NASA
The El Niño Southern Oscillation drives major weather patterns across the globe. Disrupting it could have intense and far-reaching ramifications.
