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Science and Climate Articles

 

Large rock underwater in Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe Clarity Level Bounces Back

  • by UC Davis News and Media Relations
  • May 23, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology
Mt Lassen

Lassen Is UC Davis’ Newest Natural Reserve

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 16, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Education
  • Environment
  • University
The Bad River on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa (Ojibwe).

Small Towns, Big Flood Waters

  • by Kat Kerlin, with photos and video by Joe Proudman/UC Davis
  • May 15, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
Atlantic killifish

An Evolutionary Rescue in Polluted Waters

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • May 02, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology

Endangered White Abalone Program Yields Biggest Spawning Success Yet

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • April 25, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health

Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia Mega-Genomes Sequenced

  • by UC Davis News and Media Relations
  • April 23, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology

Predicting Heat Waves? Look Half a World Away

  • by UC Davis News and Media Relations
  • April 12, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Food & Agriculture
Pelicans and birds at Suisun Marsh

Clams and Water Pumping Explain Phytoplankton Decline in San Francisco Estuary

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • April 08, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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Electric automated shuttle at UC Davis West Village

Automated Shuttle Comes to UC Davis West Village

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • April 02, 2019
  • Science and Climate
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Female mountain lion

Local Extinction of Southern California Mountain Lions Possible Within 50 Years

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • March 20, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Advancing Health Worldwide
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health

Unprecedented Number of Warm-Water Species Moved Northward During Marine Heatwave

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • March 12, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
Geocolor Image From NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite of Powerful East Coast Storm

Tweets Tell Scientists How Quickly We Normalize Unusual Weather

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • February 25, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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Scientist with glider and flag in front of icebreaker on top of ice

How Fast Are Ice Shelves Really Melting?

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • February 22, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology
The children of UC Davis Professor Andrew Latimer run down a hill in 2007

Have a Love Affair (With Nature)

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • February 11, 2019
  • What Can I Do About Climate Change?
  • Environment
  • Science and Climate
Sunflower sea star

Falling Stars

  • by Blaine Friedlander
  • January 30, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
Aerial view of rangelands in Northern California

$4.7M to Study Storing Greenhouse Gases in Soil

  • by Lisa Howard
  • January 16, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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SeaDoc Society Debuts New Video Series

  • by Justin Cox
  • January 10, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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Car splashes tire in pothole

How to Fund Roads and Ensure Electric Vehicles Pay Their Share

  • by Stephen Kulieke
  • January 03, 2019
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology
virus detected in fruit bats

Deadly Marburg Virus found in Sierra Leone bats

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • December 20, 2018
  • Science and Climate
Scientist in boat on Emerald Lake during winter

How Climate Change Is Affecting Small Sierra Nevada Lakes

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • December 19, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
Anna’s hummingbird, male

Tiny Tech Tracks Hummingbirds at Urban Feeders

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • December 12, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Human & Animal Health
UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and BMW's Monterey Gardiner behind the wheel of an electric i3

UC Davis Takes 10 Electric Cars on Extended Test Drive

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • December 05, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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  • University
Spring-run chinook salmon

Human Actions Impact Wild Salmon’s Ability to Evolve

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • December 04, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Science & Technology
Free Air CO2 Enrichment experiment , crop with scientific instruments

Back-to-the-Future Plants Give Climate Change Insights

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • November 13, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
  • Feeding a Growing Population
  • Food & Agriculture
A pod of Southern Resident killer whales, including J50, in August 2018

Learning From Gorillas to Save Killer Whales

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • November 07, 2018
  • Science and Climate
  • Environment
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