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NSF Funds UC Santa Barbara’s NCEAS/Bren School Project to Develop Holistic Approaches for Sustainability in a Rapidly Evolving Arctic. The following is a September 16 News Release from UCSB Public Affairs & Communications with the title above: As sea ice in the Arctic Ocean diminishes, the environmental change creates unique and extensive opportunities for international energy, fishing, and tourism industries. However, these...

Scarcity and fashion have a lot to do with perceived value. Lobsters, like salmon and oysters, are an acquired taste and were once so commonplace that they were disdained as food only fit for lower members of society. Today, lobsters are still relatively commonplace—lobster catches have quadrupled over the last 20 years—but they’re a lot more popular. “In North America, the American lobster did not achieve...

The following is a September 17, 2013 News Release by UCSB Public Affairs and Communications: A new UC Santa Barbara study shows that threats created by overfishing can be identified decades before the fish species at risk experience overly high harvest rates and subsequent population declines. Researchers developed an Eventual Threat Index (ETI) that quantifies the biological and socioeconomic conditions that eventually cause some...