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Sea ice displayed remarkable resiliency in 2013, but can it resist further climate change?

Finding her niche from her traditional background to success has sometimes been a rocky road for Raven Longwolf Alcott. But now a senior looking forward to graduation next spring, she has negotiated the obstacles and found success at The University of...

Findings offer hope for coastal regions even as climate change intensifies storm risk

As part of The University of New Mexico’s homecoming week festivities, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) hosts an open house Friday, Nov. 5 from 2-4 p.m. to celebrate the newly renovated Clark Hall. The campus community is invited to...

The celebrated UC Santa Cruz oceanography professor Gary Griggs made a vow this spring, and he plans to stick with it. “I am going to be the last guy standing at UC Santa Cruz,” he declared with equal parts bluster and self-deprecating humor. Griggs, 77, distinguished professor of Earth and planetary sciences, is well aware of the fact that most faculty members who have taught for more than half a century, as he has, have the word "emeritus" or "emerita" hanging off the end of their titles. At this point, only one other active faculty member, a professor in the English Department, has b...