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UC Santa Barbara's Top News [UC Santa Barbara's Top News] [UC Santa Barbara]( August 25, 2020 Top News [Two Men Disagreeing]( [‘Beyond Your Bubble’]( Scholar Tania Israel’s new book offers a bridge to connect across the political divide. [Read More ▶]( [Seventeen of the 24 playwrights of ]( [The Lasting Encore]( LAUNCH PAD’s “Alone, Together” collection of 39 Zoom-friendly plays has been published as a resource for theaters across the nation. [Read More ▶]( [New Mexcico Landscape]( [A Risky Climate Investment]( Researchers find that using forests to offset carbon emissions will require a better understanding of the risks. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Yahoo! News]( [The Capital Note: SEC, USO, SRI, etc.]( At the start of the year, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil sold for $60. By late April — in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak and a price war between the Saudis and Russians — WTI went negative for the first time ever. The pandemic so obliterated demand for oil that storage costs came to exceed its market price, forcing energy traders to pay as much as $40 for the privilege of parting with a barrel of crude. [Read More ▶]( [CBS News]( ["Cancel culture" seems to have started as an internet joke. Now it's anything but.]( Getting "canceled" frequently plays out the same way: A person — whether famous or not — says or does something controversial and the backlash on social media follows swiftly. [Read More ▶]( [Wired]( [California's Wildfire and Covid-19 Disasters Just Collided]( YOU’D BE HARD-PRESSED to dream up a nastier confluence of crises besieging California right now. Over the weekend, Tropical Storm Fausto propelled moisture from off the coast of Baja California up into the Bay Area, spawning rare summer thunderstorms. At the same time, the region has been baking under an intense heat wave that has desiccated vegetation, which all too easily combusted when those thunderstorms rolled through. [Read More ▶]( [Axios]( [More seafood on the menu by 2050]( New research charts out how improvements in aquaculture and sustainable fishing could significantly increase food production from the sea by midcentury. [Read More ▶]( [Arts]( | [Science + Technology]( | [Society + Culture]( | [Campus + Community]( | [Athletics]( | [Calendar]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Connect with Us: [FB icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Vimeo icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [RSS icon]( Copyright © 2020 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Share this email: [Email]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by[managing your preferences.]( If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL]( using TrueRemove® View this email [online](. [UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 93106 US](#) [This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.]({EMAIL})