New science shows grazing access to public lands in the western U.S. can be good for ranching and wildlife
NCEAS
-
-
The world’s marine wilderness is dwindling, according to research from UCSB and the University of Queensland
-
Achieving the University of California’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2025, as proclaimed in its Carbon Neutrality Initiative, will require not just ongoing technological and...
-
Zegar Family Foundation gifts UCSB $1.04 million to address impacts of climate change through science
-
Understanding our planetary boundaries means accounting for oceans, says marine ecologist Benjamin Halpern
-
Ocean vital signs are stable, but bill of health isn’t clean, concludes a multiyear global assessment
-
NCEAS sees global progress with ongoing research collaboration, Science for Nature and People Partnership
-
The 2016 Ocean Health Index shows no major declines — and few real improvements
-
The UC Global Health Institute establishes a Center of Expertise on Planetary Health at UCSB and UC Davis
-
UCSB’s NCEAS to host new NSF Arctic Data Center Archive
-
An NCEAS study predicts that climate change will cause significant reshuffling of marine biodiversity
-
Food webs are incredibly complex networks of interactions between organisms and the things they eat.
-
NSF selects NCEAS for the first national communications office for the Long Term Ecological Research network
-
Research summit convenes experts in fisheries and aquaculture as part of UC Global Food Initiative
-
A new study estimates the input of plastic waste from land into the ocean at 8 million metric tons — equal to 1.5 million cars
-
The initial findings of the Ocean Tipping Points collaboration analyze various factors affecting ocean ecosystems
-
Many fire scientists would like Smokey Bear to hang up his prevention motto in favor of tools like thinning and prescribed burns
-
DataONE combined bird occurrence data collected by citizen scientists with land-use data that enabled researchers to map more than 300 bird species
-
Scientists show that a subset of present coral fauna will likely populate oceans as water temperatures continue to rise
-
The most comprehensive assessment conducted by the Ocean Health Index rates the Earth’s oceans at 67 out of 100 in overall health
-
Two NCEAS working groups will analyze diverse datasets to gain new insights about the impact of the disasterous oil spill
-
The west coast states score 71 out of 100 overall
-
UCSB’s NCEAS explores how protecting nature can help secure future food, energy and water supplies
-
With small labs, field stations and individual researchers collectively producing the majority of scientific data, the task of storing, sharing and finding the millions of smaller datasets requires a widely available, flexible and robust long-...
-
As ice cover in the Arctic Ocean diminishes, the anticipation of increased shipping activity grows. In response, the International Maritime Organization is developing an international code of safety for ships operating in polar waters, commonly...
-
An independent peer review found that the science behind the proposed rule to delist the gray wolf species was preliminary and not widely accepted by the scientific community.
-
A new study conducted by UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis shows that toxic concentrations of pollutants and additives enter the tissue of animals that have eaten microplastic.
-
In the 2013 Ocean Health Index, scientists point to food provision as a factor that continues to require serious attention. The OHI defines a healthy ocean as one that sustainably delivers a range of benefits to people now and in the future...
-
A new synthesis of multidisciplinary peer-reviewed research identifies the ways in which nature’s ecosystems deliver crucial benefits — and thus contribute culturally and psychologically to human well-being in non-material ways. Conducted by a...
-
Science for Nature and People (SNAP) aims to address modern conservation and economic development in ways that will benefit humankind, especially the planet’s poorest and most marginalized citizens. SNAP’s mandate is to find practical, knowledge...
-
A three-year international collaboration of research organizations aims to establish an inclusive set of governance practices for sustainability in Arctic coastal-marine systems. The project involves marine spatial planning on a pan-Arctic scale...
-
A network of undergraduate ecology and conservation biology classes at eight universities across the country compiled data on invasive plants in U.S. National Wildlife Refuges and performed an analysis to determine which factors promote or...
-
The most comprehensive global meta-analysis of the way the world’s marine systems are reacting to climate change reveals a pattern of response of even greater magnitude than previously thought by science. Undertaken by eminent scientists at 17...
-
Analysis of the data indicates that clouds mainly have an effect on short-term seasonal growth, but longer-term changes in these forests appear to be due to temperature. While other studies have used long-term flower production data, this is the...
-
Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by.
-
The remarkable diversity of California's plant life is largely the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study conducted at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (...
-
On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blowout, a national panel of researchers is providing new insight into what happened in the disaster, as well as a guide for how to deal with such events in the future, and why...
-
Humanity's relationship to fire –– including wildfires, burning of fossil fuels, controlled burns, and human-caused fire –– is the focus of a report by an international team of scientists.
-
Global warming is clearly impacting plants and animals, but we should not try to tease apart the specific contribution of greenhouse gas-driven climate change to declines or extinctions of species at local scales, according to biologists working...
-
A new study by researchers from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) sheds light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be more effectively managed.
-
Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist, permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations in biodiversity during rapid climate change.
-
Size and shape may predict the survival of corals around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
