Elizabeth Rush, author of the UCSB Reads 2020 selection, will discuss her acclaimed book about sea level rise in an online community forum.

Lost jobs and lost revenue dominate the South Coast tourism sector, according to an Economic Forecast Project webinar.

Staff members in the Department of Theater and Dance use lockdown time to make face coverings for health care workers.

As climate- and ecological-monitoring projects go dark, data that stretch back for decades will soon contain coronavirus-associated gaps.

The new initiative, called Evergreen, aims to push the Washington governor’s widely hailed campaign platform on Joe Biden and congressional leaders.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most of the research team has left the country. Mitani says such precautions make sense for both humans and chimps, who are likely vulnerable to COVID-19, too, according to an 11 April preprint on bioRxiv. But he and his colleagues may miss the rare events that structure chimpanzee society.

Workers at companies that offer poor pay and unsafe working conditions now know they are essential. And many expect to be treated that way.

“It was not just a campaign document, it was a governing document.”