“UC Santa Barbara scientists say record heat and drought are taking a deadly toll on California’s native trees.” The following article in The UCSB Current was written by Jim Logan and posted October 1, 2015, with the title “Hot, Dry and Dying”: If you want to see how hard California has suffered in the drought and record heat, take a stroll through a stand of oaks. You’ll likely see brown patches in the canopies and dead...
Read MoreThe following is an article written for TheConversation.com by UCSB Geography Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier and posted on September 10, 2015 with the title above: As the summer ends, heat is dominating the meteorological landscape, with the warmest month ever recorded and the drought continuing unabated in California. At the same time, it is clear that an El Niño is building that is expected to culminate in the fall and last...
Read MoreIn a recent National Public Radio history article with the title above, Richard Gonzales comments: “While Pope Francis is in Washington this week, he is scheduled to canonize Junipero Serra — an 18th century Spanish missionary and the founder of California’s storied network of missions. The canonization of Serra prompts a robust debate: Was the Franciscan friar, as the pontiff proclaims, a saint? Or was he, as many Native...
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