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Oceanographic
Exploring California's enchanting kelp forests
According to the a study from the University of California, Santa Cruz, led by adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Tim Tinker, satellite imagery has shown a dramatic reduction in kelp forest coverage, plummeting by over 95% in certain areas of the state. In Northern California, only isolated patches of healthy bull kelp remain.…
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National Geographic
Europa is an icy ocean world—and NASA is finally going to explore it
Hubble images from around a decade ago hinted that such plumes could be erupting. But “all the detections have been at the detection limits,” says planetary scientist Francis Nimmo of the University of California, Santa Cruz. “If [the plumes] exist, then they're pretty intermittent, and they may not actually be there at all.”
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NPR
How can we bring extinct species back from the dead?
“It's the icon of how awful we can be,” says Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They went extinct within just a few decades of people first appearing on Mauritius, which is the only place that dodos ever lived.” Shapiro is also a MacArthur Fellow, which scientists commonly…
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Mongabay
Across reforestation organizations, best practices claims abound, but details are scarce
Mongabay covered prior research by Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl on the practices of tree-planting organizations and shared news about a new phase of the research, starting this month, in which the team plans to investigate links between reported practices and reforestation outcomes.
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Science
To slow global warming, could methane be stripped from the air
Science interviewed Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah about a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that recommends a two-phase approach for studying the need and potential for methane removal technology in the United States. Jinnah was a member of a special committee formed by the organization to help develop a research agenda…
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CNA
Explainer: What sparked Sudan’s civil war and humanitarian crisis
Politics Professor Mark Fathi Massoud gave a 15-minute interview about the ongoing conflict in Sudan, including the history that led to the current civil war.
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Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Imperial County residents deserve to benefit from a potential lithium boom
Environmental Studies and Sociology Professor Chris Benner, who is the faculty director for the Institute for Social Transformation, co-wrote an opinion article about the need for local communities to benefit from lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region. More detailed coverage is available in The Conversation.
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The New York Times
Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet
Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah explained the harms of unregulated and uninformed solar geoengineering efforts, like the group Make Sunsets. “They are a couple of tech bros who have no expertise in doing what they’re claiming to do,” she said. “They’re not scientists and they’re making claims about cooling credits that nobody has validated.”
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Financial Express
Deficits, debt and India’s growth prospects
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an opinion article for Financial Express about the fiscal architecture necessary to managing public debt and deficits in India.
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Space.com
A 'primordial' black hole may zoom through our solar system every decade
"The black holes we consider in our work are at least 10 billion times lighter than the sun, and are barely larger in size than a hydrogen atom," said study co-author Sarah Geller, a theoretical physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in the Earth.com, Futurism, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Popular…