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Food insecurity gap remains despite efforts
A research by the UC Santa Cruz Blum Center on Poverty, Social, Enterprise and Participatory Governance that documented food insecurity in San Benito County was featured in an article by Benito Link.
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Ask Lookout: When I scrape my plate into my new food scraps bin, where does it go?
Environmental Studies Professor Elliott Campbell spoke with Lookout Santa Cruz to explain the science of how composting food scraps can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity
Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl spoke with Mongabay about the importance of long-term monitoring to assess the impacts of reforestation campaigns.
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A Key to Controlling Emissions: More Buildings in a City’s Unused Spaces
The New York Times cited research by Associate Professor of Sociology Hillary Angelo in an article about the climate benefits of infill development.
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Driving the Future? Green Justice and the Lithium Valley
Sociology and Environmental Studies Professor and Institute for Social Transformation Faculty Director Chris Benner coauthored an article about how "solidarity economics" principles could be applied to discussions of lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region.
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When Elephant Seals Become Ocean Researchers
Biologists Dan Costa, Roxanne Beltran, and Rachel Holser were featured in an article about their elephant seal research in Sierra magazine.
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The JWST's Data Is So Incredible That Even Those Who Built It Are Questioning Previous Science
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was featured in an interview by Futurism about the James Webb Space Telescope.
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On the enigmatic ‘flying potato’, neither plant nor animal, that caused the Bay’s biggest harmful algal bloom in history
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a Bay Nature article about the harmful algal bloom that killed huge numbers of fish in San Francisco Bay.
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JWST’s First Exoplanet Images Forecast a Bright Future
Astronomer Aarynn Carter was quoted in a Scientific American article about direct imaging of exoplanets with the Webb telescope.
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Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds
Biologist Bradley Colquitt was quoted in Science News commenting on a study showing that drumming woodpeckers use the same neural circuitry as singing songbirds.