THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - A public garden in Riverside offers an oasis of nature to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. Located in the foothills of Box Springs Mountain, the 40-acre UCR Botanic Gardens features about 25 acres of gardens nestled against natural habitat. Over 4 miles of scenic trails wander through the gardens...
By Rebecca K. O'Connor | The Community Foundation | PE |
AAAS - Exequiel Ezcurra has been named the recipient of the 2020 Award for Science Diplomacy by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his leadership in bringing together research, education, outreach and policy in service of environmental protection, particularly at the United States-Mexico border. A professor of ecology in the Department of...
DESERT SUN - Wildflowers are fickle. Ample rain is needed each winter month, especially in January and February, in order for the plants to blossom at the proportions that create a superbloom, flower enthusiasts say. Following that rule, this year’s wildflower season might not be as bright as last year’s, when an epic bloom blanketed...
UC NRS - The world’s largest university-administered reserve system will hold a symposium this fall to commemorate 55 years of field research and teaching. The UC Natural Reserve System Symposium, to be held in Berkeley from November 12–13, 2020, will feature more than three dozen talks showcasing research, immersive field education, and public service conducted...
CNN - The search for oxygen on other planets outside of our solar system, called exoplanets, is thought to be an aid in the search for life outside of Earth. Now, astronomers have developed a new method for detecting oxygen on exoplanets, according to a new study published Monday. The scientists believe their new method...
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - The discovery of a dozen diseased fruit trees in Corona has fanned fears that citrus greening disease may soon ravage commercial orchards in Riverside County. Thus far, said Georgios Vidalakis, a UC Riverside professor and director of the university’s citrus clonal protection program, the historic navel orange tree has escaped infection and...
THE NEW YORK TIMES - [Research by Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics, is featured in an article about Earth's orbit around the sun, as well as the orbits of neighboring exoplanets.] In the wee hours of Sunday (2:47 a.m. Eastern time, to be exact), Earth will make its closest approach to the...
MARKETPLACE - American Public Media's Marketplace, broadcast on National Public Radio affiliates around the U.S., features Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection curator Tracy Kahn in a segment about tangerines, also know as mandarins or clementines. Marketplace listener Rick Peters is 73, retired, and lives in Frederick, Maryland. He shared this memory: “When I was growing up...
THE MERCURY NEWS - In a nondescript industrial complex in western Riverside County, a British company is planning to put billions of black flies and maggots to work on a unique task: upcycling food waste. AgriProtein is building a plant in Jurupa Valley that will collect throw-away food typically sent to landfills. The waste becomes...
THE SCIENCE TIMES - To understand how life came to be, it is important to note the atmospheric history of the planet, which allowed life to succeed. One of the important events in atmospheric history is the Great Oxidation Event, wherein the Earth's shallow oceans experienced a dramatic increase in oxygen. Millions of years, later...
ALTA ONLINE - When I was a kid, teaching myself to bird-watch, I would go out to the arboretum, and I found this one Anna’s hummingbird holding a territory.” Ornithologist Chris Clark’s obsession with hummingbirds like the red-crowned Anna’s began with repeated visits to the University of Washington’s arboretum, in Seattle, at the age of...
SCOTMEMOS - Just in time for the holiday season, we are introducing a brand new collection of: marmalades, honey, olive oil, chocolate bars, indio mandarinquats, bar soaps, and lip balm. These products are made with produce from the UCR Citrus Variety Collection, one of the world's most diverse living collections of citrus species, and the...
By UCR Dining and Hospitality Services | Scotmemos |
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - The 5-year-old children peering into telescopes at UC Riverside watched something Monday, Nov. 11, that they won’t see again until they’re at least 18. From Earth, the planet Mercury appeared to pass directly in front of the sun for several hours — beginning before sunrise and ending at 10:14 a.m. — for...
NEWSWEEK - A new invasive species of tumbleweed that can grow up to six feet in height is taking over parts of California—and scientists are warning it could spread even further as climate change makes its growing conditions more favorable. In a study published in the journal AoB Plants, Shana Welles, from Chapman University, and...
ASTRONOMY ONLINE - Astronomers know that most galaxies house supermassive black holes in their centers, from the largest galaxies down to small dwarfs. They also know that when supermassive black holes are actively feeding, they can slow or even stop the formation of stars in their home. Although this relationship has been well established for...
HEALTHLINE ONLINE - The news about vaping from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps getting more ominous. Today, the CDC reported Trusted Source there are now 1,299 known cases of lung disease associated with the use of e-cigarette products. The illnesses are likely due to a combination of factors, added Prue Talbot...
ASSOCIATED PRESS - In a lab southeast of Los Angeles, researchers are opening a new front in the yearslong battle against a tiny pest that has wreaked havoc on citrus groves around the world. California citrus growers and packers and the University of California, Riverside on Thursday marked the opening of an $8 million lab...
NPR/KVCR - A UC Riverside scientist has made a key discovery about evolution from an unlikely source: guppies. UCR professor of biology David Reznick used the small fish to study this question: do animals evolve in response to the risk of being eaten, or to the environment that they create in the absence of predators...
NPR/KVCR - On July 6, just a day after the 7.1 earthquake in Ridgecrest, Ghosh drove out to the city to install 25 seismometers in the ground. Seismometers are instruments that measure vibrations in the ground and record them into a data log that can be used to analyze earthquakes. Ghosh will use this data...
GIZMODO - While some Joshua trees will hang on if humans rapidly lower their carbon emissions, if no action is taken to stop climate change we’ll lose nearly all of these iconic spiky trees, which only live in the area near southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Published in the journal Ecosphere in June, the...