Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz mountain lions are avoiding you, UCSC study finds
According to a study out of UC Santa Cruz, you don’t need to worry about mountain lions on your favorite hiking trail. Odds are, they’re staying out of your way, even when you’re on their turf. This story also appeared in The Mercury News, East Bay Times, and the Monterey County Herald.
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Colorful birds are at greater risk of extinction than drab birds, study finds
“If you go to a market, you’ll see all those birds that are supposed to be in the forest, they’re all in cages,” Ocampo-Peñuela, with the University of California Santa Cruz, told Mongabay in a video call.
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Clear sighting of ‘wandering’ black hole reveals escapee from galaxy merger
Within weeks of the discovery of TDE 2025abcr, a team led by Kishore Patra of the University of California, Santa Cruz observed it with the W. M. Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s JWST observatory, to capture its glow in optical and infrared light. Additional coverage in Smithsonian Magazine
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At Joliet prison, desperate men set themselves on fire
Craig Haney, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an expert on mental health in prisons, said the frequency of fires at the Joliet Treatment Center is a sign of abject hopelessness.
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How human behavior impacts these sex-changing fish
“This is an exciting finding,” says Malin Pinsky of the University of California Santa Cruz, who studies genetic changes in fish population, but was not involved in this study. “I am not surprised that large differences in the environment, such as from fishing, would affect the DNA in this way.”
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After federal cuts to SNAP, Santa Cruz food bank CEO says “we can’t lose sight of hope”
A recent report that UC Santa Cruz commissioned found that one out of every three people in our county is food insecure, namely attributed to the high cost of living.
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Beyond free access: UC Santa Cruz study exposes the hidden barriers to California’s beaches
A new UC Santa Cruz study reveals that despite California’s strong access laws, historical discrimination, wealth disparities and systemic barriers still make the state’s coastlines overwhelmingly white and affluent. Additional coverage by The Cool Down and Earth.com.
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This humpback whale hunting strategy has been out of sight — until now
In Stellwagen Bank, the research team has seen individual humpback whales switching between surface bubble-net feeding and benthic hunting. It’s like they’re “playing two sports that have completely different skill sets to be successful,” says Ari Friedlaender, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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As Commercial Salmon Fishing Resumes in California, the Industry Faces a Murky Outlook
For California’s salmon recovery to continue, Steve Lindley, an oceanographer and fish ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a former director of NOAA’s Fisheries Ecology Division, said it will be important to think of how salmon are raised and where they live.
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Thousands of Kidnapped Africans Died on an Island in the Atlantic After Being Rescued From Slave Ships. Evidence in Their Teeth Traces Their Journeys
Strontium isotopes are specific to types of water and plants, and they embed in kids’ tooth enamel as it forms. That means the isotopes “reflect where they were at that specific time in their lives,” study co-author Vicky Oelze, a geochemist at the University of California Santa Cruz, tells Science. “Even if they were displaced, the signature of where…
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Santa Cruz Mountains | Animal crossings rise in second year of Highway 17 underpass
The idea for the crossing was founded in strong scientific evidence that the land trust compiled in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz’s Puma Project and Pathways for Wildlife, which specializes in wildlife connectivity ventures.
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Bohemian Grove: ‘Merely a playground’ for male elite or shrouded retreat with global reach?
The question of whether the encamped Bohos commit much in the way of plotting and conspiring was taken on in the 1970s by G. William Domhoff, a UC Santa Cruz psychologist and sociologist intrigued by individuals who wield great power.