Despite assumptions that many marine protected areas exist only on paper, the world’s most strongly protected MPAs have little-to-no industrial fishing activity.

For “Beyond the Classroom: Special Research Collections,” Director Cathy Williams leads a video tour of the department’s reading rooms and exhibition space, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Sarah Poot Herrera has built a cross-border scholarly network through her research on Sor Juana and Mexican literature, fostering collaboration, mentorship and cultural ...

UCSB’s Justin Wilson has developed a new approach to extract rare earth elements from waste. The goal is to make rare earth element recycling financially, logistically and environmentally attractive.

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s highest salinities. The high concentration of salt gives it a correspondingly ...

Scientists uncover why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, solving a longstanding quandary in the science of rivers.

Metatext: In his latest book, UCSB scholar Benjamin Cohen examines the global and domestic pressures that could push countries, including the U.S., toward breakup.

For her interdisciplinary ethics research through the lenses of antiracist and anticolonial movements, UC Santa Barbara comparative literature PhD candidate Solaire Denaud has received the Charlotte W ...

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Madeleine Gross and Jonathan Schooler developed a curiosity-focused app that helps users build curiosity through small daily actions — offering new insight into how ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence, technology companies are fueling an unprecedented expansion of data centers. These digital infrastructures power everything from search engines to ...

There’s no sugar coating to the film, nor a succinct lesson at the end. But it’s important medicine at a time when public health and environmental safeguards are under attack.