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“Much of the Florida shoreline was once too cold for the tropical trees called mangroves, but the plants are now spreading northward at a rapid clip, scientists reported Monday. That finding is the latest indication that global warming, though still in its early stages, is already leading to ecological changes so large they can be seen from space” (New York Times Science article, December 30, 2013). According to the...

According to science reporter James Morgan, writing for BBC News, Science & Environment, “Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to understand what causes so-called supervolcanoes to erupt” (“Supervolcano eruption mystery solved”): Supervolcanoes are capable of eruptions thousands of times larger than normal outpourings. It was thought that an external trigger, such as an earthquake, was...

UCSB-SDSU doctoral candidate, Elizabeth Kennedy, received a US Fulbright Student Award for 2013-2014 to conduct research with repatriated child migrants and children and youth living in lower income neighborhoods in El Salvador. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are the primary sending countries of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) to the United States, accounting for nearly 90 % of the 23,500 child migrants who...