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2026

UCSB campus

Symposium celebrates UCSB’s academic excellence

Sonia Fernandez

The Current

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Marine protected areas do in fact work, study shows

Tyler Hayden

Santa Barbara Independent

curved road through forest

Nature’s Market Moment: Turning Ecosystems into Economic Climate Assets

Christopher Costello

Environmental Defense Fund

electricity lines and sunset

Cutting Pollution Is Cheaper Than Paying for the Damage It Causes

Chris Costello

Environmental Defense Fund

crop burn

Why Paying First Works: Designing Smarter Incentives to Tackle Crop Burning

Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande

The Policy Edge

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Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are

Rhett Ayers Butler

Mongabay