EEMB News

With increasing levels of carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere and moving into marine systems, the world's oceans are becoming more acidic.

Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the health of fish populations.

US and Canadian researchers, including EEMB professor William Rice, have evolved a population of fruitflies that can count. 

Calder combined her love of teaching and insects and wrote the tome Airplanes in the Garden: Monarch Butterflies Take Flight.

A new study of flower petals shows evolution in action, and contradicts more that 60 years of scientific thought.

Viruses fill the ocean and have a significant effect on ocean biology, specifically marine microbiology, according to a professor of biology at UC Santa Barbara and his collaborators.

Scientists have unraveled the dynamics of a deadly disease that is wiping out amphibian populations across the globe.