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After federal cuts to SNAP, Santa Cruz food bank CEO says “we can’t lose sight of hope”
A recent report that UC Santa Cruz commissioned found that one out of every three people in our county is food insecure, namely attributed to the high cost of living.
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This humpback whale hunting strategy has been out of sight — until now
In Stellwagen Bank, the research team has seen individual humpback whales switching between surface bubble-net feeding and benthic hunting. It’s like they’re “playing two sports that have completely different skill sets to be successful,” says Ari Friedlaender, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Beyond free access: UC Santa Cruz study exposes the hidden barriers to California’s beaches
A new UC Santa Cruz study reveals that despite California’s strong access laws, historical discrimination, wealth disparities and systemic barriers still make the state’s coastlines overwhelmingly white and affluent. Additional coverage by The Cool Down and Earth.com.
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As Commercial Salmon Fishing Resumes in California, the Industry Faces a Murky Outlook
For California’s salmon recovery to continue, Steve Lindley, an oceanographer and fish ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a former director of NOAA’s Fisheries Ecology Division, said it will be important to think of how salmon are raised and where they live.
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Thousands of Kidnapped Africans Died on an Island in the Atlantic After Being Rescued From Slave Ships. Evidence in Their Teeth Traces Their Journeys
Strontium isotopes are specific to types of water and plants, and they embed in kids’ tooth enamel as it forms. That means the isotopes “reflect where they were at that specific time in their lives,” study co-author Vicky Oelze, a geochemist at the University of California Santa Cruz, tells Science. “Even if they were displaced, the signature of where…
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Santa Cruz Mountains | Animal crossings rise in second year of Highway 17 underpass
The idea for the crossing was founded in strong scientific evidence that the land trust compiled in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz’s Puma Project and Pathways for Wildlife, which specializes in wildlife connectivity ventures.
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Bohemian Grove: ‘Merely a playground’ for male elite or shrouded retreat with global reach?
The question of whether the encamped Bohos commit much in the way of plotting and conspiring was taken on in the 1970s by G. William Domhoff, a UC Santa Cruz psychologist and sociologist intrigued by individuals who wield great power.
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‘Exceptional’: Monterey Bay captain captures airborne killer whales and dolphins
Ari Friedlaender, a professor in the ocean sciences department at UC Santa Cruz who was not involved in the whale watching, described to SFGATE that witnessing such an event was “exciting and exceptional.” Even though this was a typical dynamic between prey and predator, the fact that people were there at the right time and…
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As centrist Dems go after the Left, beware the P-words
In her recent essay in Jacobin, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank argues that “words like ‘practical’ and ‘pragmatic’ may sound objective, but they’re used to undermine a left that’s winning elections.”
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Novelist Karen Tei Yamashita on the relevance of Japanese American internment today
Emeritus Professor of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita spoke with KQED about her family’s story and her new novel, Questions 27 & 28.