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The following NewScientist.com article was written by Fred Pearce and posted on June 8, 2015 with the title “Snail’s Demise Suggests Sixth Mass Extinction Is Underway”: The meek may, as the Bible says, inherit the Earth. But the spineless are going extinct. While vertebrate species like mammals and birds are mostly surviving the human-dominated epoch of Anthropocene better than expected, invertebrate species are...

A National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis working group study analyzes a variety of factors contributing to forest die-offs; coauthor Naomi Tague is an Affiliate Faculty member of the Department of Geography. Julie Cohen, in an article for The UCSB Current posted June 9 with the title above goes on to state: A combination of drought, heat and insects is responsible for the death of more than 12 million trees in...

David López-Carr is a Professor in the UCSB Department of Geography, and, until recently, the Director of the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program. After 3 years of service to the latter, he has turned over the reins to a new director. Lopez-Carr prepared these words in his last official role as LAIS director at the awards ceremony (see the full text here): As I leave the Directorship of Latin American and Iberian Studies...