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The following article is a news release from the University of Southampton, dated 15 May 2014 and with the title above: An international study, led by the University of Southampton, has led to the creation of the world’s first global database of jellyfish records to map jellyfish populations in the oceans. Scientific and media debate regarding future trends, and subsequent ecological, biogeochemical and societal impacts, of...

Ed Keller, Professor of Earth Science, Environmental Studies, and Geography (affiliated), has written a weekly column about the natural history of Santa Barbara for the Santa Barbara News Press for 5 years to date, and he’s finally taking a break. As he puts it, regarding his upcoming article of May 22, “This [will be] my last story for about a year, as I am on academic leave next year and plan to finish some research papers and...

The following is an article by Robert Sanders, writing for UC Berkeley Media Relations on May 14, 2014 and with the title above: Winter rains and summer groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley make the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges sink and rise by a few millimeters each year, creating stress on the state’s earthquake faults that could increase the risk of a quake. Gradual depletion of the Central Valley...