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U.S. News & World Report ranks UCSB number 8 among the country’s top public universities. The following is an article from The UCSB Current, written by Andrea Estrada and posted September 8, 2015 with the title above: In its 2016 listing of the “Top 30 Public National Universities” in the country, U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Santa Barbara number 8. This marks the university’s highest ranking ever in the magazine’s...

The following is a Climate Central article by Brian Kahn, published August 31, 2015, with the title above: The West continues to be a fiery inferno as August fades into September. Wildfires have exploded across the region this month. There have been 117 large wildfires to date, including 70 large fires that are still burning. Those fires, along with thousands of smaller blazes, have contributed to 7.8 million acres burned in the U.S.,...

“Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc., account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector. It is now clear that in order to constrain the impacts of climate change within limits that society will reasonably be able to...