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Geography graduate student Emily de Moor is screening her film “Tar Wars” on Thursday February 6, as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). It will be shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at 10am alongside four other short documentaries. The film was screened on Sunday February 2 to a full audience, despite competing for attention with the Super Bowl later in the day. It also screened at the...

“The lowest number of monarch butterflies ever recorded in their Mexican winter home has experts worrying about the future of the epic monarch migration. A new report by the World Wildlife Fund and two Mexican agencies says this year’s precipitous plunge in monarch numbers is due to the loss of the insect’s main food: milkweed. Loss of the plant’s habitat to urban sprawl and expanding agriculture is said to be...

“UC Santa Barbara researchers say the combination of drought and warming climate may have major environmental consequences.” The following is an article from the UCSB news central service, The Current, titled “A One-Two Punch” which was written by Shelly Leachman and posted January 28, 2014: California being in the clutches of drought — as it is today — is nothing new. From prehistoric droughts to...