Society for Conservation Biology: Santa Cruz Chapter

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Court rejects Trump’s drilling proposal in major victory for polar bears and climate https://www.peoplesworld.org//court-rejects-trumps-drilli/

Environmental policy used to treat the oceans as an endless expanse, immune to human interference. We now know that "Dilution is the solution to pollution" was wrong, and that our actions can impact even oceans' deepest depths. https://www.popsci.com//environment/mercury-ocean-trenches/

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https://news.ucsc.edu/20//environmental-trade-policy.html

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Hydrologist Margaret Zimmer has received NSF funding to study the impact of wildfire on the site where she has been studying how water moves through the landscape https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/11/watershed-wildfire.html

Covid-19 jumped into humans from bats, and that means it might be able to make that interspecies shift again. Bat conservationists in North America are worried about starting a new wildlife pandemic. https://www.sciencenews.org//bats-people-spillover-transmi

This article answers several interesting questions about the recent wildfires! https://goodtimes.sc//wildfire-aftermath-questions-answer/