UCSB — The Current — A ‘Paris Agreement’ for plastic could slash plastic pollution to almost zero and more news, events
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A comprehensive new analysis leverages AI to lay out how a UN plastics treaty — currently under negotiation — can achieve nearly zero plastic waste by 2040. Without intervention, say scientists, plastic pollution is set to rise 60% by 2050.
Artists Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay — renowned for their adventurous performances of new music — will give a free recital of four compositions including “Titanium” by João Pedro Oliveira, Corwin Chair of Composition and Guggenheim fellow.
Increased temperatures from human-caused climate change are having persistent and damaging impacts on vegetation productivity, according to new research.
The author and journalist discusses how California’s capture of land and water is the story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders and devastation it has wrought in this talk for the IHC series “Imagining California.”
The communication professor discusses her research exploring the various ways to frame the issue of digital access, or the ‘digital divide,’ in bills proposed to Congress.
The author and Wharton School professor, an organizational psychologist, examines why some people are overlooked despite their talents, and how that can begin to change.
Chancellor Yang joins UC President Drake and all UC chancellors in condemning acts of bigotry, intolerance and intimidation that have recently taken place on UC campuses.
