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Pelicans are starving and dying along California coastline
FAIRFIELD, Calif. - A surge of injured and starving pelicans are showing up at wildlife centers in California and those that don't make it are dying in high numbers. Since April 20, an "unusually high number" of the water birds have been arriving at wildlife rehabilitation centers along the Santa Cruz to San Diego coastlines, according to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Exhibit at UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem highlights the power of art, protest
“Malaquias Montoya and the Legacies of a Printed Resistance”. The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is a free museum located on the UC Davis campus and a pillar of the art community in town. Its exhibitions have ranged in content from Roy De Forest’s whimsical “Habitats for Travelers” to the striking work of Mike Henderson’s “Before the Fire.” Despite their differences in theme and topic, they all share a common goal — to help UC Davis students and the greater community connect, whether to the planet, to social issues or to each other.
The UC Davis Coffee Center Is Officially Open
This is the golden era of coffee research. Whether it be developing newer, more resilient varieties, experimental processing methods, effects on human health, or even novel uses for spent coffee grounds, the science of coffee has become prodigious and multi-disciplinary. And with the official opening of the Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis campus, the academic study of coffee has a new home in the US.
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