A Crisis in the Chesapeake Bay
Victoria Penate
Environmental scientists have found compelling evidence to show that the Chesapeake Bay is recovering from the damage it has sustained from after over...
The Plastic Plight of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Annette Ding
Staff Writer
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a 79,000 ton mass of debris floating in the North Pacific Ocean.
An international team...
Groundbreaking Study Maps Global Fishing Patterns
Dylan Goldman
Staff Writer
Scientists at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management recently published a first-of-its-kind study about their four-year project that tracked most...
UCSB Helps Advance the Field of Aquaculture
Hannah Maerowitz
Staff Writer
A team of researchers, including fellows and faculty at the UC Santa Barbara National Center for Ecological Analysis and the Bren School...
Severe Drought Grips Santa Barbara County, Again
Victoria Penate
A large portion of California is currently experiencing abnormally dry conditions, which could potentially lead to another statewide drought. There has been a...
“Where’s the Bear?” Project Identifies Animals with Digital Cameras and Machine Learning
Victoria Penante
A team of professors and students from the UC Santa Barbara Department of Computer Science has developed a system designed to aid ecological...
Self-Cloning Crayfish Undergoes Population Explosion
Jessica Gang
At first glance, it reads like the plotline of a bad horror movie: a ten-legged mutant creature is born with the ability to...
Car Companies Under Fire for Animal Testing
Ziqiang Zhao
Volkswagen, BMW, and Daimler received widespread condemnation for testing diesel fumes on monkeys and humans after a New York Times article published Jan....
Can Students Keep Living on the Edge in I.V.?
Anais Tournier
For UCSB students, cliff and beach erosion have become problems too large to ignore. The California Coastal Commission estimated that over just the...
Mega Moon Reveal Tomorrow Morning
Tanner Walker
Science & Tech Editor
Early Wednesday morning, a rare combination of lunar events will cause Earth’s moon to glow unlike it has since 1866....
