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WVXU: What are those dents in the forest?

June 29, 2023

UC Associate Professor Dylan Ward explains to WVXU why some forests have terrain that looks like a rumpled blanket over an unmade bed. The answer: limestone sinkholes that created small depressions in the ground.

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NPR: Abandoned wells are leaking planet-warming methane

June 28, 2023

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Amy Townsend-Small tells NPR's Here & Now program that a relatively small percentage of wells are responsible for most of the methane spilling into the atmosphere from leaks.

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Forbes: When did mammoths go extinct?

January 24, 2023

UC paleontologist Joshua Miller tells Forbes that environmental DNA can persist for centuries or even millennia, making it unreliable as a barometer for dating extinction events.

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Fox19: UC contributes to search for life on Mars

June 24, 2022

UC College of Arts and Sciences associate professor Andy Czaja and his students are on NASA's science team using the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars.