What Can the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Teach Us About Animal Life?
History—and science—have a lot to teach us here in Santa Barbara, California.
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What Can the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Teach Us About Trusting Estimates?
History—and science—have a lot to teach us here in Santa Barbara, California.
How Santa Barbara’s Oil Spill Could Affect Tourism
For Santa Barbara tourism, the recent oil spill could present a crude reality.
De-Funding Climate Change Research
Climate change deniers in Congress complain about a lack of data while trying to de-fund NASA’s climate change research.
How Big Business Accidentally Helped the Amazon Rainforest
It's much easier for environmentalists to take aim at multinational corporations than at peasant farmers.
Wyoming Has Effectively Made Citizen Science a Crime
A sweeping new law could make data like photographs and soil samples inadmissible in court.
Climate Change Denial Is Also Impacting Scientists Themselves
A new study suggests their attempts to respond to public opinion may actually be counterproductive.
A New Kind of Emergency Preparedness
How hospitals are getting ready to face a rapidly changing climate.
How Much of an Increase in Temperature Can We Tolerate?
An IPCC author assails the current two-degree target as scientifically bankrupt and geographically biased.
Tweets From a Changing Arctic
Interested in environmental issues in the North? Here are the Twitter users to follow.