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3 UCLA faculty contribute to Fifth National Climate Assessment
Three UCLA professors contributed to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a report emphasizing the pervasive and inequitable nationwide harms of climate change, which was released by the White House on Tuesday. Co-authors…

Arctic Ocean could be ice-free for part of the year as soon as 2044
UCLA study narrows the predicted timeframe for one worrying result of climate change

Bike expedition raises awareness of climate change in California
The California Climate Expedition is a 550-mile bike tour from Oakland to Los Angeles
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Daniel Swain and Alex Hall for NY Times — What an El Niño Winter Could Mean for California
UCLA climate scientists Daniel Swain and Alex Hall were both quoted in a recent article by The New York Times. They discuss what an El Niño winter could mean for California. “This is likely to…
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Alex Hall in UCLA Newsroom—How does your garden grow?
Professor Alex Hall’s work with native plants is in full bloom, with a weekend tour and podcast
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Alex Hall in NY Times–What Does All This Rain Mean for California’s Drought?
And, as Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed out to me, disputes over the dwindling Colorado River still…
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Alex Hall in NY Times—A Very Wet Winter Has Eased California’s Drought, but Water Woes Remain
“It’s sort of like if you are deep in debt,” said Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at U.C.L.A. Suddenly encountering a lot of cash “might…
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Alex Hall on CBS8: California hit by heavy rain, but is it enough to end the drought?
”We are on the express train for sure. It’s been storm after storm. But they’re very important, the main source of moisture for the western part of the US especially…
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Alex Hall in US Sun: These wet-air rivers are “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states
These wet-air rivers are “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states,” Alex Hall, UCLA’s Center for Climate Science director, told CBS.