Environmental Studies
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Gardens Are Good for the Neighborhood
Environmental Studies Professor and Center for Agroecology Faculty Director Stacy Philpott discussed her recent research on the benefits of urban gardens with Eos.
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Are Floating Solar Panels the Future of Clean Energy Production?
Smithsonian Magazine covered Environmental Studies Professor J. Elliott Campbell's latest research on the potential for floating solar panels on reservoirs.
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With A Plan To Save The Lake Rejected, What's Next For The Salton Sea?
Environmental Studies Professor Brent Hadadd joined KPCC radio show AirTalk with Larry Mantle to discuss the recommendations of an independent review panel that he supported.
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Restore the Salton Sea not to its former size but to its role in the ecosystem
Environmental Studies Professor Brent Haddad co-authored an op-ed for Los Angeles Times about recommendations for the Salton Sea from an independent review panel that he supported.
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As Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, a plan to save it with ocean water is rejected
Environmental Studies Professor Brent Haddad was quoted in an article by Los Angeles Times about findings from the work of an independent review panel, which Haddad and a team at UC Santa Cruz supported. This story was also shared on KCRW.
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How California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmare
Grist reporting on the Salton Sea included recent findings from the work of an independent review panel, which was supported by Environmental Studies Professor Brent Haddad and a UC Santa Cruz team.
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Salton Sea Independent Review Panel recommends against importing water to shrinking lake
Coverage that originally appeared in The Palm Springs Desert Sun shared findings from the work of an independent review panel, which was supported by Environmental Studies Professor Brent Haddad and a team at UC Santa Cruz.
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At UCSC symposium on the Latin American far right, Bolsonaro looms
Latin American and Latino Studies Professor Patricia Pinho and Environmental Studies Professor Flora Lu were featured in post-event and pre-event coverage by Lookout Santa Cruz of a symposium that gathered scholars from Brazil and UC Santa Cruz.
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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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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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Ukraine’s national seed bank is still standing, but could be ‘lost forever’ warn scientists
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Maywa Montenegro spoke with Euronews about seed conservation methods.