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An aerial shot of a pumping plant for the California Aqueduct. The channel continues through pipes into the background toward parched hills.
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While reducing demand is important, most successful cases of groundwater recovery also involve moving huge amounts of water to meet demand.

Why some regions are winning the fight against groundwater depletion

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Adelie penguins

Ice Sheet Plays Key Role in Regulating and Responding to Earth's Climate
Female-specific iridescent stripes in the skin of the common market squid

True Colors: Female Squid Have Two Ways to Switch Color
A fly consumes camphor-containing ice cream.

For Fruit Flies, Food Experience Can Alter Taste Preferences
fMRI connectivity results

Research Reveals Brain Connections Underlying Accurate Introspection
2013 Global Scores for the Ocean Health Index

2013 Ocean Health Index Shows Food Provision Is an Area of Great Concern

NCEAS Documents Intangible Effects of Nature on Well-Being

Researcher Reveals the Brain Connections Underlying Accurate Introspection

UC Santa Barbara to Host the Third Central Coast Sustainability Summit on October 23

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New Grant Supports Research on Infectious Disease Transmission
The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, Francois Englert, left, and Peter Higgs.

US Scientists Celebrate Nobel Prize for Higgs Discovery

New Tool for Studying Membrane Protein Structure
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