Flames torched the hillside, igniting the dry chaparral at Sedgwick Reserve in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. Sagebrush and yucca caught fire like tinder as the flame front advanced, leaving charred snags and smoldering yucca stumps in its wake.
Scientist Débora Iglesias-Rodriguez is studying ocean carbon dioxide removal. Learn about a day in her life and lab as she explores ways to address climate change.
Researchers investigated the carbon emissions, labor and health implications of several policies to reduce oil extraction, with a special focus on how the effects vary across different communities in California.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has conferred Holly Moeller with a CAREER award to study how mixotrophs function and how they are impacted by environmental change.
A study by biologist David Herbst of UC Santa Barbara shows that the increasing salinity of salt lakes poses a physiological threat to the quantity and quality of brine flies, their aquatic larvae and pupae life stages — thereby posing a similar threat to the birds who visit such lakes.
The Marine Science Institute DIVErsity in Diving Program was among the eight projects selected to receive Sea Grant funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The New Phytologist Foundation has awarded Leander Anderegg the Tansley Medal given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career.
UCSB Marine scientists have compiled the first detailed description of the animal communities that live in the asphalt volcanoes about 10 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara.
A team of researchers, led by scientists at UC Santa Barbara, investigated how ramping up monitoring efforts can be particularly valuable when resources are close to depleted.
After 39 years of broadcasting KCBX public radio has been taken off the air because changes in Earth’s atmosphere have been interfering with radio waves.
Marine biologists at UC Santa Barbara investigated the effect of elevated temperatures on Kellet’s whelk larvae, a common Southern California sea snail and the target of an emerging local fishery.
“The Blob,” an extreme marine heatwave that rolled through the Pacific Ocean several years ago, continues to affect the nearshore rocky reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel, especially sessile invertebrates.
Members of the Moeller lab carried out a three-year experiment to see how two strains of mixotrophs would adapt to changes in temperature and light level.
By ranking foods on factors such as greenhouse gas emissions or water pollution, scientists have made useful headway on assessments of the environmental impacts of food by pound or kilogram.
Researchers and scholars from around the world met at UC Santa Barbara to discuss innovative approaches to researching and addressing environmental injustices.
Marc and Lynne Benioff have made a gift of $60 million to UC Santa Barbara. The gift builds on the Benioffs’ legacy of support to the campus to address ocean problems and advance science-based solutions and establishes the new Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory.
