After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests

New research provides the first comprehensive map of the vast footprint of coconut palm agriculture across nearly every Pacific atoll.

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Researchers model airbursts, a common yet little-understood cosmic impact process

Earth scientist James Kennett and collaborators characterize “touchdown” airbursts near the Earth’s surface that are “more common than large crater-forming events and hence are potentially more dangerous.”

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UCSB ranks eighth globally for interdisciplinary science

The rankings, developed in collaboration with Schmidt Science Fellows, celebrate universities driving scientific excellence and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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