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The following is a ThinkProgress.org Climate Progress report written by Emily Atkin and posted on March 13, 2015 with the title above: Dr. Andrew Trites has been studying marine mammals in the North Pacific for 30 years, and he’s never seen anything like what’s happening in California. “This will probably be the highest number of stranded sea lion pups on record,” he told ThinkProgress on Friday. “The last three years have been...

Alumnus Alex Samarin (BA 2008) recently wrote to say: “I think it’d be great if you could feature a current environmental issue that I’ve been a part of: groundwater contamination by oil extraction. It’s an important issue in California that was just heard by the CA Senate Natural Resources committee on Tuesday [March 10]. My dad and I have been involved at the local level by pursuing a particular case of legal...

Dr. Greg Husak, a UCSB Researcher in UCSB Geography’s Climate Hazard Group, comes across as a fortyish, quiet, and soft spoken guy, but there’s a more flamboyant side to him. “Hollywood” Husak has won three national championships playing ultimate frisbee with the UC Santa Barbara Black Tide and the San Francisco Jam, a world championship with the Santa Barbara Condors, and, just recently, a gold medal with the U.S. Open Master team in...