Media Coverage
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Euronews
Birdwatchers flock to Colombia and South Africa- so why are Venezuela and DRC being left behind?
“Over the years, we’ve seen Colombia really explode as a birdwatching destination, and we often asked ourselves why more countries aren’t similarly recognized as great places for birdwatching,” said Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, lead author of the new UC Santa Cruz study.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
The state of labor on Labor Day 2025
Teresa Ghilarducci, a research fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community, wrote an opinion article about the need to defend workers’ rights, voice, and the truth about their conditions.
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Mongabay
Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study
A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones and the high seas by 2050. “It’s an important issue and an important paper that I think should make anyone concerned about fisheries or the seafood on their plate sit up and…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UCSC acquires 414 acres for conservation, farming in major land deal
UC Santa Cruz is expanding its footprint with the acquisition of two properties long held by a Santa Cruz family: 214 acres of protected natural land next to its main campus, and plans for acquiring about 200 acres of oceanfront farmland near the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
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Forbes
Forbes’ Top 25 Public Colleges
These 25 public schools, eight in California, give the private elites a run for their money. Their students have strong academic outcomes, high salaries and less debt. UC Santa Cruz ranked #22 on the nationwide list.
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Financial Express
Don’t rise to any bait from Trump
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh argues that following China’s example in building human capital and knowledge capital is India’s best defense against pettiness & narcissism.
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CNN
Brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help solve an enduring cosmic mystery
Prior to the Outrigger telescopes’ capability to triangulate a fast radio burst to its source, “it was like talking to someone on the phone and not knowing what city or state they were calling from,” said study coauthor Bryan Gaensler, dean of the University of California, Santa Cruz science division. Also covered by Gizmodo.
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Discover Magazine
Steam Worlds Have Atmospheres Like a Sweltering Sauna, Made Entirely of Hot Water Vapor
“The interiors of planets are natural ‘laboratories’ for studying conditions that are difficult to reproduce in a university laboratory on Earth. What we learn could have unforeseen applications we haven’t even considered. The water worlds are especially exotic in this sense,” said co-author Natalie Batalha, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of…
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Coastside News
Coastsiders can expect more power outages
Yu Zhang, an assistant professor in the UC Santa Cruz Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, pointed out that fire can still strike coastal communities, such as the Santa Cruz wildfires in 2020.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Loving fire with fire: Humor, horniness and happiness inhabit post-CZU film
Well-known performance artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens interpret their close encounter with the 2020 CZU fire with a new taboo-busting film that puts the fires into the context of “ecosexuality.”
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The New York Times
What Jesse Jackson and Zohran Mamdani Have in Common
Michael McCarthy, leader of the Community Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz says organizers have always known that “in order to build a movement, you need to address specific yet important concerns that affect only some parts of your coalition while also speaking to the issues shared by everyone you want to draw into your…
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These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back.
Adriane Tengan-Stoia and Lex McClellan‑Ufugusuku, doctoral students in history at UC Santa Cruz, explained that women were the spiritual leaders in Ryukyuan society and were believed to possess a divine connection to the spiritual realm. But as Okinawa was colonized, women in positions of power were targeted, and hajichi tattos worn by these women were…