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The following is a May 12 public news release from UC Irvine with the title above and subtitled, “Volume of melted ice enough to raise global sea level by 4 feet”: A rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in irreversible decline, with nothing to stop the entire glacial basin from disappearing into the sea, according to researchers at UC Irvine and NASA. The new study presents multiple lines...

UCSB Geography graduate student Kate Voss was a guest speaker on an online KCRW radio talk, “Mad Men, Adapting to Climate Change & Brunei Brutality,” hosted by Madeleine Brand on May 6, 2014. Kate’s segment was titled “Desalination to Fight Drought”: “According to the White House report released today on climate change, it’s going to be hotter and drier here in California. So, how are we...

Mr. Yang Lin (Ph.D. candidate in UCSB Geography) has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) from the NSF Division of Environmental Biology for his proposal, “Quantifying Changes in Lignin Chemistry During Photodegradation Versus Biotic Decomposition Using 2D NMR Spectroscopy.” According to the NSF website: “These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research for improvement...