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How farming perennial crops can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division

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Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
a patient intake form, a stethoscope and a red ribbon that symbolizes HIV

HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events
a sandy beach in the Bahamas
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Divina Cox

Citizen science app tracks coastal erosion in the Bahamas
portraits of ucsb political scientists Matto Mildenberger and Neil Narang against the backdrop of the White House
Political scientists Matto Mildenberger (left) and Neil Narang

UCSB scholars join podcast recap of national headlines from 2025
A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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SHansche via iStock
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
Older woman with grey hair and blue coat sits outside rustic building
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Elana Resnick
Baka, a waste collector, at home.

How Europe’s green transition is reinforcing racial inequality
illustration of swimming microbes on dark background
Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean

The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers
Aerial view of Lake Tefé during a severe drought, when its waters are low.
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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.

Hotter than your average spa: Rising temps in Amazon lakes sound alarm over climate change
coal plants with smoke
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iStock

How to retire coal, smarter and faster
Ruins of an ancient temple beneath a blue sky and clouds
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iStock / Leonid Andronov
Tikal, in Guatemala, is among the major sites of the Classic Mayan civilization.

Why Classic Maya cities rose and fell
A forest sits atop an eroding bluff.
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Maksim Safaniuk via iStock
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.

Two UCSB professors recognized for contributions to the Earth sciences
A hotshot in an orange hardhat, yellow Nomex jacket and sunglasses glances to the right backlit by an inferno engulfing the pines a few dozen yards behind him, with the book cover to the right.
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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.

Hotshots, history and the human choices behind megafires
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